Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom ... Kopley, author of “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life,” recently published by the University of Virginia ...

It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe ... made the chief success of his life. It is clear from this that Poe was far from being the literary mountebank he is generally ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan ... the life back to the work. I always knew, for instance, that “The Cask of Amontillado” was a revenge fantasy against one of Poe’s literary rivals ...

Edgar Allan Poe does not suffer from a shortage of biographers ... finding in the creation of literature the perfection he could not achieve in his own life. It is a poignant story told by a ...

In the annals of American literary culture ... should have a definitive biography, and Richard Kopley certainly seems the man to write it. With “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life” Mr. Kopley, a ...

Edgar Allan Poe ... home life, losing his parents at a young age and having a strained relationship with his foster parents.