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Title: Old-fashioned, but That's a Plus...
Review: Quinn's biography of Poe may be old-fashioned, but it's encyclopedic, scholarly, and not encrusted with all kinds of chic postmodernisms that we deplore in 20th Century biographies of 19th Century persons. I wanted to know about Poe, not about Arthur Hobson Quinn's grasp of psychoanalysis and postmodern politics, and that's what I got.Quinn bends over backwards to be sympathetic to Poe in all the controversies of his life, but Poe needed all the charity he could get, now as well as when he lived. Quinn writes from the perspective of a University of Pennsylvania professor, a historian of drama and literature, and Quinn's not afraid to wade into the texts of Poe's Tales and Poems to give us critical opinions, nearly always based in some facts, not high-flown speculation.Too bad we don't have more of these old school men who lived between 1875 and 1944!
