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Informationen zum Autor Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, Benjamin Fisher has focused on the life and writings of Edgar Allan Poe for four decades. Most recently, he is the author of Poe and the 1890s and the editor of Masques, Mysteries, Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany , the Poe volume in the American Critical Archives series, and Poe's Horror Stories . Klappentext Noted Poe scholar Benjamin Fisher includes a comprehensive introduction and a detailed chronology of Poe's sadly short life; each entry is introduced by a short headnote that places the selection in historical and cultural context, and explanatory notes provide information about people and places. From John Allan's letter to Secretary of War John Eaton about Poe's West Point life to John Frankenstein's hostile verse casting him as an alcoholic, from Rufus Griswold's first and second posthumous vilifications to James Russell Lowell's more sensible outline of his life and career, from scornful to commendable reviews to scathing attacks on his morals to recognition of his comic achievements, Fisher has gathered a lively array of materials that read like the most far-fetched of gothic tales. Zusammenfassung An image of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) as a man of gloom and mystery continues to hold great popular appeal. Whether promoting him as angel or demon! 'a man of great and original genius' or 'extraordinarily wicked'! this collection of primary materials provides vigorous testimony to support the contradictory images of the man and the writer.
