Edgar Allan Poe

Informationen zum Autor Kevin J. Hayes is Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. His previous books include Poe and the Printed Word! The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe and The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson. Klappentext The life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) is the quintessential writer's biography great works arising from a life of despair! poverty! alcoholism! and a mysterious solitary death. This title argues that Poe's work anticipated many of the directions Western thought would take in the century to come. Zusammenfassung The life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) is the quintessential writer's biography great works arising from a life of despair! poverty! alcoholism! and a mysterious solitary death. This title argues that Poe's work anticipated many of the directions Western thought would take in the century to come.

Product details

• Authors: Hayes, Kevin J. Hayes
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9781861895158
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-515-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Critical Lives; Critical Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies