Editions and Collections:
- The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, with A Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and Notices of his Life and Genius by N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell, 4 volumes, edited by Griswold (New York: J. S. Redfield, ).
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry (Chicago: Stone & Kimball, ).
- The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 17 volumes, edited by James A. Harrison (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, ).
- Selections from the Critical Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by F. C. Prescott (New York: Holt, ); republished, with new preface by J. Lasley Dameron and new introduction by Eric W. Carlson (New York: Gordian Press, ).
- Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 3 volumes, edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ).
- Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Burton R. Pollin, volume 1, The Imaginary Voyages: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall, The Journal of Julius Rodman (Boston: G. K. Hall, ); volume
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (), title page and table of contents
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Arthur Hobson Quinn () was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His particular interest was early American drama. He was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the university, (Quinn became a professor emeritus in , although he continued to lecture and serve on various committees until his official retirement in He married Helen McKee in She died in )
The text for this electronic version of this book was initially prepared as HTML by Chris Aruffo. It has subsequently been revised for XHTML/CSS and to follow our own formatting preferences. Pagination has been added, and additional proofreading and correction has also been applied. As appropriate, clarifcations or updates to Quinn's text have been provided as notes at the bottom of each page by Jeffrey A. Savoye. One curious issue that has apparently escaped general notice is that the edition of contains a number of small but certain errors, which were corrected when the biography was reprinted in (The reprint by Johns Hopkins Press uses this corrected edition, although whether this was intentional or merely f
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography
Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor in the 19th century best known for his evocative short stories and poems that captured the interest of readers worldwide. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, are shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death in at age
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Edgar Allan Poe
BORN: January 19,
DIED: October 7,
BIRTHPLACE: Boston, Massachusetts
SPOUSE: Virginia Clemm Poe ()
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: CapricornEarly Life
Edgar Allan Poe was born Edgar Poe on January 19, , in Boston. Edgar never really knew his biological parents: Elizabeth Arnold Poe, a British actor, and David Poe Jr., an actor who was born in Baltimore. His father left the family early in Edgar’s life, and his mother died from tuberculosis when he was only 2.
Separated from his brother, William, and sister, Rosal
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