Cooper Square Press
Pages: 376
Trim: 6¾ x 9
978-0-8154-1038-6 • Paperback • September 2000 • $22.95 • (£17.99)
978-1-4616-6095-8 • eBook • September 2000 • $21.50 • (£16.99)
Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of Hemingway: Life into Art, Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and many other biographies. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Poe haunts the upper mind as an exalted and radiant justification of logic; and the unconscious as an obsession. Jeffrey Meyers shows us how, why, and where these things go, and are going. God help us. But for Poe, we never would have known.
— James Dickey, Poet and Author of Deliverance
Vivid and haunting: a great success.
— Kirkus
Admirably executed. Meyers, untempted by psychoanalytic theories, conveys Poe's acrimonious, often absurd literary travails and canvasses his reputation and influence. Meyers' book pitches Poe as the 'prototypical self-destructive American writer.' Meyers insists on reading Poe as more than the sum of his bereavements.
— Times Literary Supplement