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) .
Blank (i)
dire
unforeseen
auspicious
Blank (ii)
dispute
hold fast to
squelch
Blank (iii)
all but inevitable
clearly unexpected
hardly justified
