How does Poe's biography relate to "The Tell-Tale Heart"? Use specific details from the biographical blurb and the story to support your ideas.At...

I don't necessarily agree that Edgar Allan Poe's personal
life or supposed mental problems are related to his short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Some critics have suggested that Poe himself was mentally unstable, and that he based
the story's narrator on his own problems.

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Upon Poe’s death in 1849, his one-time friend
and literary executor, R. W. Griswold, wrote a libelous obituary in the New
York Tribune defaming Poe by attributing the psychological conditions of many
of his literary characters to Poe’s own state of
mind.

However, there is very
little proof that Poe suffered from any form of mental
illness.

Most
critics, however, contend that there is nothing to suggest that Poe psychologically
resembled any of his emotionally and mentally unstable fictitious
characters. 

Poe did have
many personal problems, including financial setbacks, alcoholism, failed romances, and
the death of his young wife. But Poe's literary genius and the unusual subject matter of
many of his stories seem to come from an incredible imagination and his own creative
thought processes rather than mental disease.