Reviews for The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe

The average rating for The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-17 00:00:00 Kyle Mussman I would recommend this book to anyone obsessed with poe. However there are several things i should mention. The first one is that this book may be 1300 pages long but only about 842 pages are letters and after each letter is a paragraph describing his relationship with the person the letter it is written to and the backstory behind it, followed by a paragraph on the condition of the letter. The first section of letters are the letters written to his stepfather when he was at Westpoint which are mostly him asking for money, after that the letters are about literary matters usually in regards to the journals or magazines he was working at or trying to start. There are also alot of letters in the book written by him asking for money.The book also has some form letters that are written to people asking them to submit writings to the journals or magazines he was working at, or poe asking to borrow money to help fund those same journals or magazines . The Second thing you should know is this after the letters are sections on the people he was writing to , notices of payment or to borrow money, a section of fake letters, and finally 300 pages of a bibliography and index. This book will let you get to know poe from his own hand , so I recommend it highly

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-10 00:00:00 Tom Hemingway Hoopis teistmoodi vaade biidihärradele, võiks öelda, et täiskasvanu pilgu läbi, aga täiskasvanu on vaheldumisi heroiini/morfiini/kokaiini/kanepi/u saja eri tableti, muu taime ja kemikaali vaevades - kohe-kohe jätab igaveseks maha, juba jättiski, juba päris kauaks, oi näe, hakkab jälle pihta. Ime, et ta ellu jäi, ime, et ta kirjutas (ehkki raamatuid ikka heroiinivaheaegadel, suurem osa muud kraami ei läinud tal õieti arvessegi). Ma olen midagi temalt kunagi lugenud ka, aga nii ammu, et enam ei ole 100% kindel, kas "Junkyt" või "Queeri", aga nyyd on huvi muidugi olemas, võib-olla kunagi julgen isegi "Naked lunchi" lugeda. Ja äge, et Burroughs tekitas Ginsbergi vastu sellise huvi, mida Kerouac päris ei ole suutnud.