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

The Literati of New York Part II 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 I 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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EDGAR ALLAN POE By James Russell Lowell THE situation of American literature is anomalous. It has no centre, or, if it have, it is like that of the sphere of Hermes. It is divided into many systems, each revolving round its several suns, and often presenting to the rest only the faint glimmer of a […]

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Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House by Edgar Allan Poe SOME SECRETS OF THE MAGAZINE PRISON-HOUSE. The want of an International Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the way of remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our best writers into the […]

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Marginalia by Edgar Allan Poe Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, or illuminations. DEMOCRATIC REVIEW, November, 1844 In getting my books, I have been always solicitous of an ample margin; this not so much through any love […]

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Morning on the Wissahiccon by Edgar Allan Poe Morning on the Wissahiccon (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension, […]

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DIDDLING by Edgar Allan Poe CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE EXACT SCIENCES. Hey, diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle SINCE the world began there have been two Jeremys. The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham. He has been much admired by Mr. John Neal, and was a great man […]

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A Few Words on Secret Writing by Edgar Allan Poe A Few Words on Secret Writing (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe As we can scarcely imagine a time when there did not exist a necessity, or at least a desire, of transmitting information from one individual to another, in such manner as to elude general […]

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PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE by Edgar Allan Poe In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, meliora probant, deteriora sequuntur—the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, […]

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MAELZEL’S CHESS-PLAYER by Edgar Allan Poe PERHAPS no exhibition of the kind has ever elicited so general attention as the Chess-Player of Maelzel. Wherever seen it has been an object of intense curiosity, to all persons who think. Yet the question of its modus operandi is still undetermined. Nothing has been written on this topic […]

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Scenes from “Politian” Play by Edgar Allan Poe (1835) DRAMATIS PERSONAE POLITIAN, Earl of Leicester. A MONK. DI BROGLIO, a Roman Duke. LALAGE COUNT CASTIGLIONE, his son. ALESSANDRA, betrothed to BALDAZZAR, Duke of Surrey, Castiglione. Friend to Politian. JACINTA, maid to Lalage. The Scene lies in Rome Contents 1 I. 2 II. 3 III. 4 […]

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OLD ENGLISH POETRY (*) by Edgar Allan Poe IT should not be doubted that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing apart from poetry-we mean to the simple love of the antique-and that, again, a third of […]

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