Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Mourning

Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Mourning, by Holly Zynda, discusses Poe's life and works as they relate to the deaths of his loved ones and expressions of possible post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It attempts to academically prove that one of his greatest artistic influences was the effect that consumption had on his family, the deaths of the individuals who contracted the disease, and the potential PTSD that he exhibited in his poems and stories.