Edgar Allan Poe (Twayne's United States Authors Series, Tusas 4) [Hardcover]

Vincent Buranelli (Author)

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• Hardcover: 166 pages
• Publisher: Twayne Pub; 2 edition (April 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805771891
• ISBN-13: 978-0805771893
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #452,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars At the eve of his bicentenary!, January 19, 2008

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This review is from: Edgar Allan Poe (Twayne's United States Authors Series, Tusas 4) (Hardcover)

Edgar Allan Poe is by far, the most complex personality around all the impressive gallery of North American writers. No one like him, has been able to scrutinize with such frenzy those culverts of the existence, the terror, psychological abnormalities, insanities, pain and suffering that permeates and overflow the human soul.

In his works you can appreciate that rare lucidity of understanding, a vigorous analytical spirit, and at the same slender and precision almost mathematical. Idealistic and visionary, his febrile imagination led him and subsequently to us for unthinkable landscapes, pregnant of an ant natural firmness and vitreous hovered by a hammering monotony and sinister nightmares.

His sensibility toward the beautiful, pure and romantic respect the woman ("To Helen", "One in the paradise" for instance) associated with the sweetest objects of the nature inspired him to make lyrics. Finally his poetries "Leonora" ,"The raven", "For Annie", "Ulalume" seem to witness by themselves.

Born precisely a day like today 199 years ago, I guess around the world there will be countless talks, seminaries and grade thesis about him with the imminent arrival of his bicentenary in his native Boston.

A zealous biography in which one may notice the profound admiration of his author, and the way he describes every chapter, every passage plenty of abundant referential information, make of this book an absolute must-have.