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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Edgar Allan Poe |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Meyers |
ISBN: | 0815410387 9780815410386 |
OCLC Number: | 925264057 |
Notes: | ¿7FAn unabridged republication of the edition published in New York in 1992"--Title page verso. |
Description: | xii, 348 p. : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Jeffrey Meyers. |
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Poe haunts the upper mind as an exalted and radiant justification of logic; and the unconscious as an obsession. Jeffrey Meyers shows us how, why, and where these things go, and are going. God help us. But for Poe, we never would have known. -- James Dickey, Poet and Author of <i>Deliverance<i> Vivid and haunting: a great success. * Kirkus * Admirably executed. Meyers, untempted by psychoanalytic theories, conveys Poe's acrimonious, often absurd literary travails and canvasses his reputation and influence. Meyers' book pitches Poe as the 'prototypical self-destructive American writer.' Meyers insists on reading Poe as more than the sum of his bereavements. * Times Literary Supplement * Read more...

