Studies in the Novel, December 22nd, 1993
MEYERS, JEFFREY. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy (New York: Scribners, 1992). 348 pp. $30.00.
This volume is not a work of original archival research; it is a reworking of other's published material, a synthesis designed for the general reader. Perhaps it may serve as a useful introduction for those unfamiliar with Poe. But, unfortunately, the book is significantly flawed.
It is flawed by errors of fact. Poe's friend Hiram Haines was not from Richmond (p. 94), but from Petersburg. In May 1844, N. P. Willis was not editor of the Evening Mirror (p. 152), but of the New Mirror. Poe's fir...
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