Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Hobson Quinn (1875-1960) is also the author of American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey and History of the American Drama. Shawn J. Rosenheim is an associate professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Allan Poe to the Internet, also available from Johns Hopkins.

• List of IllustrationsForewordPreface Chapter 1. The HeritageChapter 2. Richmond–The Early YearsChapter 3. The School Days in EnglandChapter 4. Richmond Again, 1820–1826Chapter 5. The University of VirginiaChapter 6. "Tamerlane" and the ArmyChapter 7. Hope Deferred – "Al Aaraaf"Chapter 8. West Point and the "Poems" of 1831Chapter 9. Baltimore – The Early FictionChapter 10. The Editor of the "Messenger"Chapter 11. Philadelphia – The "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"Chapter 12. At the Summit – The Editor of "Graham's Magazine"Chapter 13. Following the IllusinChapter 14. New York – "The Raven" and Other MattersChapter 15. The "Broadway Journal" and the "Poems" of 1845Chapter 16. Widening Horizons – Friends and EnemiesChapter 17. "Eureka"Chapter 18. To Helen and For AnnieChapter 19. Richmond – The Last AppealChapter 20. The Recoil of FateAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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