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Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, known as the “Annie” Daguerreotype

EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore— Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of “never—never more!” THIS stanza from “The Raven” was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription upon the Baltimore monument […]

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THE POETIC PRINCIPLE by Edgar Allan Poe IN speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of what we call Poetry, my principal purpose will be to cite for consideration, some few of those minor English or American poems which […]

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DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE By N. P. Willis THE ancient fable of two antagonistic spirits imprisoned in one body, equally powerful and having the complete mastery by turns-of one man, that is to say, inhabited by both a devil and an angel seems to have been realized, if all we hear is true, in […]

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An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 1 An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 2 An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 3 EUREKA: A PROSE POEM. BY EDGAR A. POE. NEW-YORK: GEO. P. […]

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An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 1 An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 2 An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 3 Let me now describe the sole possible mode in which it […]

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An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 3 by Edgar Allan Poe An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 1 An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 2 An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe Part 3 We have now reached a point from which we behold the […]

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The Rationale of Verse by Edgar Allan Poe THE RATIONALE OF VERSE THE WORD “Verse” is here used not in its strict or primitive sense, but as the term most convenient for expressing generally and without pedantry all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, metre, and versification. There is, perhaps, no topic […]

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The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe The Philosophy of Composition (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe CHARLES DICKENS, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of “Barnaby Rudge,” says – “By the way, are you aware that Godwin wrote his ‘Caleb Williams’ backwards? He […]

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The Literati of New York Part VI by Edgar Allan Poe The Literati of New York City Part I The Literati of New York City Part II The Literati of New York City Part III The Literati of New York City Part IV The Literati of New York City Part V The Literati of New […]

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The Literati of New York Part V by Edgar Allan Poe The Literati of New York City Part I The Literati of New York City Part II The Literati of New York City Part III The Literati of New York City Part IV The Literati of New York City Part V The Literati of New […]

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The Literati of New York Part IV by Edgar Allan Poe The Literati of New York City Part I The Literati of New York City Part II The Literati of New York City Part III The Literati of New York City Part IV The Literati of New York City Part V The Literati of New […]

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The Literati of New York Part III by Edgar Allan Poe The Literati of New York City Part I The Literati of New York City Part II The Literati of New York City Part III The Literati of New York City Part IV The Literati of New York City Part V The Literati of New […]

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