dreaming_ace 's review for:

Poe A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
3.0

This was a ok biography. I think the struggle was it was repetitive because Poe had several patterns that he repeated again and again in his life.

Pretty much every other story being one of:

"Poe drank too much, became depressed (or sometimes became depressed and then drank too much) and then was rude or mean or otherwise made a poor life choice" or

"Poe creepily fell in love with another women (or in the case of his future first wife a girl of 9), and who about 70-80% of the time happened to also be dying of TB"