Edgar A. Poe: A Biography: Mournful and Never-ending RemembranceHarper Collins, 1992 M11 4 - 592 pages From a Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, the most revealing, fascinating, and important biography of one of our greatest literary figures. |
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... thing else that would give bread to mine . " Accusing George and the other Poes of insensitiv- ity and neglect , he nevertheless presented himself as forced by " ex- treem distress " to ask a loan of " 30 , 20 , 15 , or even 10 ...
... thing else that would give bread to mine . " Accusing George and the other Poes of insensitiv- ity and neglect , he nevertheless presented himself as forced by " ex- treem distress " to ask a loan of " 30 , 20 , 15 , or even 10 ...
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... thing you can say , or any thing you may do . " Mimicking Edgar's letter , he began his also with the curt " Sir , " and then , correctly observing that the boy had " declared for your own Independance , " answered his " list of ...
... thing you can say , or any thing you may do . " Mimicking Edgar's letter , he began his also with the curt " Sir , " and then , correctly observing that the boy had " declared for your own Independance , " answered his " list of ...
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... thing , for a full year after Edgar left Richmond , he had had to turn away the boy's creditors . For another , he was freed of the duties of business and seems to have grown impatient with other obligations also . His sis- ter Mary in ...
... thing , for a full year after Edgar left Richmond , he had had to turn away the boy's creditors . For another , he was freed of the duties of business and seems to have grown impatient with other obligations also . His sis- ter Mary in ...
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... thing were preferable to my returning home & entailing on yourself a portion of my infamy . " The two years Edgar had spent on his own perhaps prepared him to approach more craftily than before a parent who encouraged independence but ...
... thing were preferable to my returning home & entailing on yourself a portion of my infamy . " The two years Edgar had spent on his own perhaps prepared him to approach more craftily than before a parent who encouraged independence but ...
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... things with thy peering eyes ! By robbing matter of spirit , science leaves nature depleted and de- mythologized : Hast thou not dragg'd Diana from her car , And driv'n the Hamadryad from the wood . In such a devitalized universe , the ...
... things with thy peering eyes ! By robbing matter of spirit , science leaves nature depleted and de- mythologized : Hast thou not dragg'd Diana from her car , And driv'n the Hamadryad from the wood . In such a devitalized universe , the ...
Contents
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Second Marriage ? to Virginia Break | 123 |
Philadelphia Billy Burton | 140 |
Attempted Recovery Ulalume Eureka Parting | 332 |
Benefit Street | 355 |
An Exchange of Letters Return to Lowell | 363 |
Suicide Attempt Conditional Engagement | 373 |
Lyceum Lecture Marriage Announced and Called Off Repercus | 384 |
New Attempts to Resume a Literary Career The Bells Hop | 394 |
New Revival of the Stylus Final Trip to Lowell Journey to | 407 |
Richmond | 419 |
Break with Burton The Penn Magazine | 155 |
Resignation from Grahams F W Thomas Virginias Illness | 174 |
Reputation after Leaving Grahams Charles Dickens and En | 195 |
Rufus Griswold Last Days in Philadelphia | 211 |
Poes Crisis Attack on Longfellow The Raven | 231 |
23 | 244 |
Poes Condition The Lyceum War | 257 |
Ownership and Loss of the Broadway Journal | 271 |
Other Writing and Editions in 1845 The | 293 |
The Libel Suit The Cask of Amontillado | 312 |
Old Point Comfort Norfolk Richmond Death and | 429 |
Muddy | 437 |
NOTES | 449 |
38 | 455 |
with John Allan | 461 |
John Allan | 467 |
99 | 492 |
APPENDICES | 523 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 537 |
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Edgar A. Poe: A Biography: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance Kenneth Silverman No preview available - 1992 |
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Page 402 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea , Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Page 166 - In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Page 402 - Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
Page 337 - Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber — This misty mid region of Weir: — Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber — This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." Said we, then — the two, then — "Ah, can it Have been that the woodlandish ghouls — The pitiful, the merciful ghouls, To bar up our way and to ban it From the secret that lies in these wolds — From the thing that lies hidden in these wolds — Have drawn up the spectre of a planet From the limbo of lunary souls — This sinfully...
Page 405 - There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common-sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind...
Page 297 - Of all melancholy topics what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?" Death, was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what I have already explained at some length the answer here also is obvious— "When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world...
Page 138 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn! — for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Meredith L. McGill No preview available - 2007 |
Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 Jared Gardner Limited preview - 2000 |