BIOGRAPHY THE BIZARRE LIFE AND WORK OF EDGAR ALLAN POE ARE TAILOR- MADE FOR PETER ACKROYD, SAYS PHILIP HOARE

The Sunday Telegraph London | February 17, 2008| | Copyright

Poe: A Life Cut Short

BY PETER ACKROYD

CHATTO & WINDUS, pounds 15.99, 170 pp

T pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

Edgar Allan Poe lived a century before his time. He died in 1849, aged 40, in Baltimore hospital - from dementia or alcohol or perhaps

sheer Gothic exhaustion. Eighty years

later he was acclaimed in D. H. Lawrence's rhetorical essays on the writers of the American Renaissance: 'The furthest frenzies of French modernism or futurism have not yet reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached.'

And as Peter Ackroyd points out ...

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