Edgar A. Poe: A Biography: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance: Amazon.de: Kenneth Silverman: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 592 Seiten
Verlag: Harper Perennial; Auflage: Reprint (4. November 1992)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0060923318
ISBN-13: 978-0060923310
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,1 x 13,5 x 4,1 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 306.440 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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An outstanding new biography by Silverman, whose The Life and Times of Cotton Mather (1983) won a Pulitzer Prize. Poe's stature as one of the ``founding fathers'' of American letters is so well established that one would be hard-pressed to find anyone educated in this country without some familiarity with his work. Known primarily as a poet and storyteller, he was in fact, as Silverman details, one of the most prolific literary journalists in American history, one whose extensive body of reviews and criticism has yet to be collected fully. A key strength of Silverman's biography is that it recognizes one of the truly distinctive aspects of Poe's character--that he belonged to the first generation of professional (as opposed to amateur) writers in America--and examines both his life and his art in this light. The great tragedies of Poe's life--his miserable childhood, his doomed marriage, the alcoholism--are well known already, but Silverman is able to highlight how many aspects of Poe's despair were the simple outgrowth of his vocation: the constant uprootings, the grinding poverty, the overexertions and tensions of the literary hack. The exegesis of Poe's writing is intelligent, realistic, and relates in a believable way to the circumstances of the writer's life. Moreover, Silverman's meticulous appendices and notes should prove invaluable to future scholars. A remarkable success: the first major biography of Poe in over 50 years, written with careful skill and great style. (Sixteen pages of b&w photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

From Library Journal

The opening of Silverman's comprehensive biography of Poe sets the tone: 24-year-old Eliza Poe, actress and mother of three, is dying. The local paper solicits funds for this destitute and deserted woman. Her son Edgar, raised but never adopted by the Allan family, thus spends his entire life mourning his losses, beseeching others for money, enduring imagined grievances, and needing to be nurtured. Quoting extensively from letters, public records, and diaries, Silverman sheds new light on how Poe's early life influenced his work. He details Poe's turbulent career as poet, short story writer, and editor traveling between Boston and Richmond and traces his literary development through bouts of alcoholism and hallucinations and disputes with literary rivals. An excellent addition to the literature that furthers understanding of America's gothic tale-teller.
- Cathy Sabol, LRC, Northern Virginia Community Coll., Manassas
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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This is the best literary biography since James Atlas' 24. November 1999

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biography of Delmore Schwartz. Objective, magnificently researched, marvellously articulate, witty, urbane, insightful. Congratulations to you, Kenneth Silverman, for elevating the biographical bar for everyone.

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Incredibly engrossing and informative 17. Oktober 1999

Von G. LeFever

I loved this book. It was another instance of realizing that almost everything I knew about a topic (in this case, E.A.Poe) was inaccurate. Also, Silverman's book provided a number of insights into life in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Richmond in the pre-Civil War 19th Century. I do wish, however, that the author had more directly addressed some lingering questions about Poe; specifically, the real nature of his marriage to Virginia and his peculiar relationship to her mother, and the cause of his bouts of derangement (was it really alcohol or some other mental/chemical condition?). This was a rich and deep book that was very difficult to put down, even though it's long.

An absorbing chronicle of Poe's life 18. Februar 1999

Von holly@reporters.net

This book contains the best research and writing of any I have read on Poe's life. It's an engrossing read and shouldn't be missed by anyone who's ever been caught up in one of Poe's stories or poems. It's also the first biography that manages to present Poe as a human being, in all his complexities. Read it, too, for its excellent portrait of life in the U.S. in the first half of the 19th century. Heartily recommended -- evermore!