{"id":3261,"date":"2014-09-29T07:15:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2014-09-29T07:15:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:15:37","slug":"edgar-allan-poe-the-fever-called-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/edgar-allan-poe-the-fever-called-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Edgar<\/a>Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809\u00a0\u2013 October 7, 1849) wrote The Raven<\/em> and other tales of mystery and macabre. \u00a0But how much do you really<\/em> know about him? \u00a0 A newly released book, Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living<\/em><\/a>\"\"\u00a0should help to answer those questions.<\/p>\n

Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English language, from the chilling \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart\u201d to \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue\u201d\u2014the first modern detective story\u2014to the iconic poem \u201cThe Raven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poe\u2019s life was one of unremitting hardship. His father abandoned the family, and his mother died when he was three. Poe was thrown out of West Point, and married his beloved thirteen-year-old cousin, who died of tuberculosis at twenty-four. He was so poor that he burned furniture to stay warm. He was a scourge to other poets, but more so to himself.<\/p>\n

In the hands of Paul Collins, one of our liveliest historians, this mysteriously conflicted figure emerges as a genius both driven and undone by his artistic ambitions. Collins illuminates Poe\u2019s huge successes and greatest flop (a 143-page prose poem titled Eureka<\/i>), and even tracks down what may be Poe\u2019s first published fiction, long hidden under an enigmatic byline. Clear-eyed and sympathetic, Edgar Allan Poe<\/i> is a spellbinding story about the man once hailed as \u201cthe Shakespeare of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You might also enjoy the LitQuotes collection of\u00a0quotes by Edgar Allan Poe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809\u00a0\u2013 October 7, 1849) wrote The Raven and other tales of mystery and macabre. \u00a0But how much do you really know about him? \u00a0 A newly released book, Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living\u00a0should …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,744,750,748,749,171,751],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-eleonora","tag-the-black-cat","tag-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher","tag-the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue","tag-the-raven","tag-the-tell-tale-heart"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t