Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling. His stepfather's disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune.

In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities - journalism, poetry, lecturing, short stories, publishing, criticism and experimentation with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) - he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845.

The poem's instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles, but his personal situation remained desperate: poverty, illness, drink, and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline. In 1849 he was found sick, injured and semi-conscious in a Baltimore tavern. Taken to hospital, he lingered on for four days, but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40.

He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters - a genius who, thanks to his dire reputation, was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime. It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe, and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.

Biografía de Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, EEUU, 1809 - Baltimore, EEUU, 1849), fue escritor, poeta, crítico y periodista romántico, reconocido como uno de los maestros universales del relato corto, uno de los de su país. Fue renovador de la novela gótica, recordado especialmente por sus cuentos de terror. Es considerado el inventor del relato detectivesco y contribuyó con varias obras al género emergente de la ciencia ficción. Su carrera literaria se inició con un libro de poemas, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). La calidad de la producción literaria de Poe es comparable a su faceta de teórico de la literatura. En obras como Fundamento del verso (1843), La filosofía de la composición (1846) y El principio poético (1850), expuso ideas singulares y novedosas sobre los géneros literarios y el proceso de creación. En 1845, publicó un poema que le haría célebre: El cuervo y otros poemas (1845), donde se expresa su anhelo de una belleza ajena a este mundo. Su trabajo ha sido asimilado por la cultura popular a través de la literatura, la música, tanto moderna como clásica, el cine (por ejemplo, las muchas adaptaciones de sus relatos realizadas por el director estadounidense Roger Corman), el cómic, la pintura (varias obras de Gustave Doré) y la televisión (cientos de adaptaciones, como las españolas para la serie Historias para no dormir).

Ficha técnica - Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe

Tipo de producto: Libro

Idioma: Inglés

EAN: 9781840221725

Referencia Abacus: 1478900.26

Editorial: Wordsworth Books Ltd

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