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Edgar Allen Poe biographers tend to fall into two camps: those who try to rescue the man himself from a macabre world in which fate had decreed nothing less than a(n) (i) outcome, and those who (ii) that very myth, treating the subject as one for whom a life of tragedy was (iii) .