Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-369) and index.
Contents:
Eliza -- Fanny Allan -- Jane Stanard and Elmira Royster -- Tamerlane and other poems -- West Point -- Maria Clemm and Baltimore -- Return to Richmond -- New York and Philadelphia -- William Burton -- Penn Magazine -- Ratiocination -- Washington, DC, Thomas Holley Chivers, and Rufus Griswold -- New York, "The Purloined Letter," and the balloon hoax -- Fame and its price -- "The Domain of Arnheim" -- Virginia's last days and the lawsuit won -- Loui Shew and Eureka -- Annie Richmond, Elmira Shelton, and Helen Whitman -- Essays, "For Annie," and "The Bells" -- "The Poetic Principle," "Hop-Frog," and "Annabel Lee" -- Richmond : the oath and consent -- Burial and afterlife.
Summary:
"Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this gifted, complicated author. Focusing on Poe's personal relationships, Morgan chronicles how several women influenced his life and art. Eliza Poe, his mother, died before he turned three, but she haunted him ever after. The loss of Elmira Royster Shelton, his first and last love, devastated him and inspired much of his poetry. Morgan shows that Poe, known for his gothic and supernatural writing, was also a poet of the natural world who helped invent the detective story, science fiction, analytical criticism, and symbolist aesthetics. Though he died at age forty, Poe left behind works of great originality and vision that Fallen Angel explores with depth and feeling"-- Provided by publisher.
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