The Haunting Quill of Edgar Allan Poe by Lee Allan Nelson

Needless to say, we have a lot to cover, and it won't be perfect, but here is a brief history of Edgar Allan Poe on screens both big and small. There is a wealth of content here, not only in Poe's work, but in his life and figure as a pop culture icon and figurehead in the gothic subculture. The destructive alcoholism of The Black Cat, the festering world of Masque Of The Red Death, the isolation and trepidation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher. His famous poems and short stories usually containing themes one may describe as somewhat autobiographical. The trauma and anxiety he experienced throughout his life is evident in his body of work. While that description is not entirely accurate, he was rather well-known as an incendiary literary critic, his poem The Raven was an instant smash, he was definitely a writer who lived paycheck to paycheck, and used a lot of that paycheck to drink until it stopped hurting. The poster child of the broke, struggling artist, unappreciated in his time, his genius wasn't unearthed until after he was gone.

Losing several family members and the love of his life to cholera and tuberculosis, marrying his cousin, and then dying mysteriously before he could see the fruits of his labor. Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories (2008) ISBN 1-4351-0469-2 NOTE: This title won the 2009 Edgar award in the category best critical/biographical.Edgar Allan Poe's life at times seems like a gothic melodrama, too wild to be true.The Inklings of Oxford : a pictorial account (2008) ISBN 3-8.Meditations on the good, the true, and the beautiful (2008) ISBN 0-8272-1252-6.What God Knows: Time and the Question of Divine Knowledge (2005) ISBN 1-93.See No Evil: The Existence of Sin in an Age of Relativism (2004) ISBN 0-8254-3371-1.Lewis Remembered: Collected Reflections of Students, Friends & Colleagues ISBN 9-6 Christianity in the Academy: Teaching at the Intersection of Faith and Learning (2004) ISBN 0-8010-2723-3.Designer Universe: Intelligent Design and the Existence of God (2002) ISBN 0-8054-2447-4.Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (2001) ISBN 1-8.Science and Faith: An Evangelical Dialogue (2000) ISBN 0-8054-2142-4.The Gospel and Its Meaning: A Theology for Evangelism and Church Growth (1996) ISBN 2-1.The same book received an Agatha nomination for best non-fiction book. His book Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories won the Edgar Award for 2009 in the category best critical/biographical. He was the director of the Poe writers conference in 2007. He is a relative of the family of Edgar Allan Poe and president of the Poe Foundation. He is the Charles Colson Chair of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, and author of a number of books. Harry Lee Poe (born 1950) is an American academic.

The Haunting Quill of Edgar Allan Poe by Lee Allan Nelson