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Edgar Allan Poe, whose personal torment so powerfully informed his visionary prose and poetry, is a towering figure in the history of American literature. The archetype of the suffering artist, he lived from one extreme to the other: he knew fame and obscurity, wealth and destitution, and the loss of everything he cherished. His fevered imagination brought him to great heights of creativity and the depths of paranoiac despair. Yet although he produced a relatively small volume of work, he virtually invented the horror and detective genres and his literary legacy endures to this day. Jeffrey Meyers here charts Poe's life in astonishing detail, from its inauspicious beginnings through the mysterious events of his last weeks. He explores Poe's pathological need to ruin everything he strived for - in journalism, friendship and marriage. He also reveals Poe as a man of infinite paradox: a Virginia gentleman and the son of itinerant actors, the heir to a great fortune and a disinherited outcast, a university man who had failed to graduate, a soldier bought out of the army, a husband with an unapproachable child-bride, a brilliant editor and low-salaried hack, a world-renowned but impoverished author, a temperate man and uncontrollable alcoholic, a materialist who yearned for a final union with God. As he turns from the life to the works, Meyers combines psychological insight with critical acumen. He analyzes the neglected stories "The Man That Was Used Up," "The Man of the Crowd" and "The Premature Burial," and shows how even his most bizarre tales, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Black Cat," are grounded in Poe's life experiences. Finally, through lively anecdote, Meyers gives Poe's literary legacy its due, covering his three distinct reputations - in America, England and France - and his powerful influence on modern writers from Nietzsche to Nabokov. Told brilliantly by Jeffrey Meyers, the story of Poe's life is rivaled for bizarre drama only by his extraordinary fiction.… (altro)
Jeffrey Meyers is noted for his literary biographies and he succeeds with this biography of Edgar Allan Poe. The details of Poe's mysterious and tragic life are laid out with clarity. He explores Poe's contrariness that bordered on the pathological as he ruined every project he attempted. From journalism to friendship to marriage his life was a failure. I was impressed with the few sturdy friends who persevered in spite of Poe's stubborn behavior. If not for these few who hired him for journal's and at least temporarily lifted him out of the gutter he would have had an even shorter and more brutal life. The wonder of it all was the stories, poetry, and criticism that he produced. It fills two volumes in the Library of America edition and it is mostly good and sometimes great. It is with his works that Meyers also proves an excellent guide, for he combines psychological insight and literary acumen in his brief precis and analysis of the stories and poems. The impact of Poe outside of the United States and on contemporary writers like Nabokov is also presented. The sum of Meyer's work is a complete portrait of Poe the American literary master. ( )
2511 Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy, by Jeffrey Meyers (read 6 Jun 1993) Poe was an enthusiasm of my high school days. I will never forget how powerfully I was affected by my first reading of The Pit and the Pendulum--I can remember exactly where I was sitting in the high school assembly room during a study period on the third floor of St. Joseph School at Earling when I read it. I long ago memorized The Raven, and have always appreciated his poems and certain of his stories. He led a life annoying to a rigorist like me, and died as a drunk in Baltimore. But the book was worth reading. even though my early enthusiasm for his writing has cooled, except in a nostalgic way. ( )
Edgar Allan Poe, whose personal torment so powerfully informed his visionary prose and poetry, is a towering figure in the history of American literature. The archetype of the suffering artist, he lived from one extreme to the other: he knew fame and obscurity, wealth and destitution, and the loss of everything he cherished. His fevered imagination brought him to great heights of creativity and the depths of paranoiac despair. Yet although he produced a relatively small volume of work, he virtually invented the horror and detective genres and his literary legacy endures to this day. Jeffrey Meyers here charts Poe's life in astonishing detail, from its inauspicious beginnings through the mysterious events of his last weeks. He explores Poe's pathological need to ruin everything he strived for - in journalism, friendship and marriage. He also reveals Poe as a man of infinite paradox: a Virginia gentleman and the son of itinerant actors, the heir to a great fortune and a disinherited outcast, a university man who had failed to graduate, a soldier bought out of the army, a husband with an unapproachable child-bride, a brilliant editor and low-salaried hack, a world-renowned but impoverished author, a temperate man and uncontrollable alcoholic, a materialist who yearned for a final union with God. As he turns from the life to the works, Meyers combines psychological insight with critical acumen. He analyzes the neglected stories "The Man That Was Used Up," "The Man of the Crowd" and "The Premature Burial," and shows how even his most bizarre tales, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Black Cat," are grounded in Poe's life experiences. Finally, through lively anecdote, Meyers gives Poe's literary legacy its due, covering his three distinct reputations - in America, England and France - and his powerful influence on modern writers from Nietzsche to Nabokov. Told brilliantly by Jeffrey Meyers, the story of Poe's life is rivaled for bizarre drama only by his extraordinary fiction.
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The wonder of it all was the stories, poetry, and criticism that he produced. It fills two volumes in the Library of America edition and it is mostly good and sometimes great. It is with his works that Meyers also proves an excellent guide, for he combines psychological insight and literary acumen in his brief precis and analysis of the stories and poems. The impact of Poe outside of the United States and on contemporary writers like Nabokov is also presented. The sum of Meyer's work is a complete portrait of Poe the American literary master. (