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...Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. The beat degeneration and high talent of Poe make for a fine biography...
...Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. The beat degeneration and high talent of Poe make for a fine biography...
...Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. Drinks, drugs and near-madness were Poe's doom, as this fine biography shows, but genius was his destiny...
...Haunted Palace, by Frances Win-war. A fine biography of Edgar Allan Poe, evoking a life of drink, drugs, and near madness redeemed solely by the unsinkable spar of his sometime genius...
...Poe and alcohol made an impossible couple, it was nothing to his bizarre relations with women. The poet's broken-field running in the sexual arena would baffle a convention of psychiatrists. Author Winwar gallantly charts the whole painful performance, beginning with Edgar's first sonnets smuggled by his sister into an exclusive young ladies' seminary (although poetry was then acceptable currency in "date-patterns," his frenzies must have startled the girls out of their wits). There followed an ocean of vows and verses to members of what he learned bitterly to call "the pestilential society...