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Poe /

by Hutchisson, James M.
Type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Willie Morris books in memoir and biography. Publisher: Jackson University Press of Mississippi c2005Description: xvii, 290 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1578067219.Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | American authors -- Biography | Critics -- BiographyOnline resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Childhood : Boston, Richmond, England (1809-1825) -- The byronic youth : university, the army, and West Point (1826-1830) -- Baltimore : early tales and satires (1831-1834) -- Return to Richmond : marriage, the Southern Literary Messenger, and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1835-1837) -- Philadelphia : Burton's Gentleman's magazine and the great tales (1838-1840) -- Graham's magazine, "The Penn," and The red death (1841-1843) -- New York : triumphs and troubles, "The raven" and the Longfellow war (1844-1845) -- Quarrels, loves, and losses (1846-1848) -- The journey and the lighthouse (1849).
Summary: Presents a biography of nineteenth-century American poet and writer, Edgar Allan Poe, and traces his life and works and his contribution to American literature as well as the literary worlds of New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-278) and index.

Childhood : Boston, Richmond, England (1809-1825) -- The byronic youth : university, the army, and West Point (1826-1830) -- Baltimore : early tales and satires (1831-1834) -- Return to Richmond : marriage, the Southern Literary Messenger, and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1835-1837) -- Philadelphia : Burton's Gentleman's magazine and the great tales (1838-1840) -- Graham's magazine, "The Penn," and The red death (1841-1843) -- New York : triumphs and troubles, "The raven" and the Longfellow war (1844-1845) -- Quarrels, loves, and losses (1846-1848) -- The journey and the lighthouse (1849).

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University Press Titles (A.A.S.L./P.L.A.), September 2006

Presents a biography of nineteenth-century American poet and writer, Edgar Allan Poe, and traces his life and works and his contribution to American literature as well as the literary worlds of New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s.

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