Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
by Richard Kopley
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"Written by one of the world's leading experts on the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe, this biography is a rich and rewarding study for the general reader as well as for the seasoned scholar. Richard Kopley combines a biographical narrative of Poe's enduring challenges-including his difficult foster father, his personal losses, his great struggles with depression and alcoholism, and the poverty that dogged his existence-with close readings of his work that focus not only on plot, show more character, and theme but also on language, allusion, and structure in a way that enhances our understanding of both. While incorporating past Poe scholarship, this volume also relates unknown stories of Poe culled from privately held letters unavailable to previous biographers, presenting a range of groundbreaking archival discoveries that illuminates the man and his oeuvre in ways never before possible"-- show lessTags
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Richard Kopley is Professor of English at Penn State, DuBois.
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- Original title
- Edgar A Poe: A Life
- People/Characters
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Important places
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; West Point Military Academy
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 818.3090 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English Middle 19th Century 1830-61
- LCC
- PS2631 .K66 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
