![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A short biography is not a long one shrunk. is as short and sharp as a flick-knife.'' -Daily Telegraph ''Ackroyd reveals a man ahead of his time, an extraordinary genius.'' -Daily Express '' deft, lively summary'' -The Spectator ''Ackroyd.makes the reader want to re-read Poe, and indeed to read more of Ackroyd on Poe.'' -Scotland on Sunday ''Poe's brilliant, erratic, abbreviated career stands to gain rather than lose from the form of brief life patented by Ackroyd. ''Ackroyd is like a literary spiritualist who summons up the voices of the dead and encourages them to possess his writing. ![]()
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