... in American Literature. "Socially dislocated, emotionally starved, and torn in spirit." He kept no diaries, had no intimate friends, and confided in no one. Poe's loneliness, obsession with plagiarism and sensibility to criticism, constant need for money, threats of rash behavior, overweening pride, humiliating self-abasement, and his compulsive self-destruction all contributed to his caustic and corrosive behavior (Graham, Kevin ... mankind. Poe once said about his disease, "I have no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has been the desperate attempt to...

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