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Title: Edgar A Poe : Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance by Kenneth Silverman ISBN: 0-06-092331-8 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 November, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a vivid, analytic record of Poe's life and work
Comment: If you have enough interest in Poe to even entertain the idea of reading a biography, you should move ahead now and order a copy of this fantastic book. But you'd better have a copy of Poe's works nearby, because Silverman's book (as with all excellent literary biographies)will continually fire your yearning to revisit familiar Poe works and to discover ones you've missed. Assuming that your interest derives first from Poe's writings, you'll find Silverman's account wholly engaging. I like to thumb through it simply for Silverman's analytic synopses of Poe's poems and stories, which the author enlivens with connections between the work he's currently reviewing and earlier and later ones as well. Silverman thus offers a total panorama of Poe's interests, development, themes and aims. Indeed, the book could almost be the biography of Poe's literary accomplishment.
Silverman's finely detailed yet compulsively readable account of Poe's life is equally engrossing. The book's title is the most sensationalistic thing about it, for Silverman pursues the facts and spectualtions about Poe with deep scholarly interest but objective, rational distance--and yet he relays it all with a novelist's drive. He allows the unremittingly frustrating commingling of tragedy and success in Poe's life speak for itself. Though this is a book to be read from cover to cover, you can nonethless pick it up anywhere and find yourself immediately involved. Silverman capture's Poe's person and his art with balance and intensity in his solid biography.
Rating: 5
Summary: Never-Ending and Evermore!
Comment: I love biographies and read a great many of them. Silverman's work on Poe is certainly my favorite bio of the American Romantic. Poe was my first and most important influence in life. I read him in middle school, and later in high school, I wrote my senior paper on his works. Since then, I have read every biography I could get my hands on. This one book is my keeper. Somehow, in his own personal way, Silverman was able to capture a side to Poe I had not really seen in earlier readings. It is subtitled a Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance, and that is exactly what it is. Here Poe comes alive, in all his glories and disappointments. It's mournful, it's detailed, and it will certainly never leave your memory. Silverman actually breathes life into Poe, and for a moment, while you are reading, you feel as though you might look over and see Edgar A sitting next to you. That's kind of nice.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the best literary biography since James Atlas'
Comment: biography of Delmore Schwartz. Objective, magnificently researched, marvellously articulate, witty, urbane, insightful. Congratulations to you, Kenneth Silverman, for elevating the biographical bar for everyone.
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Title: Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe by John Evangelist Walsh, Michael Flamini ISBN: 0312227329 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Edgar Allan Poe A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work by Dawn B. Sova ISBN: 081604161X Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe ISBN: 0394716787 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 September, 1975 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn, Shawn J. Rosenheim ISBN: 0801857309 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes ISBN: 0521797276 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 25 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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