...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...d, the match meeting with pa- rental disapproval, had himself taken to the stage as a profes- sion. Notwithstanding Mrs. Poe’s beauty and talent the y... ...stanza from William Winter’s poem, read at the dedication exercises of the Actors’ Monument to 10 Poe in Five V olumes Poe, May 4, 1885, in New Y ork... ...ch it might be possible to travel. “It is true that balloons, in the first stage of their ascensions from the earth, are known to rise with a velocity... ...ncilable with our common notions of human action, even when we suppose the actors the most depraved of men. Think, too, how great must have been that ... ...e any thing to do with the proceedings but himself, and he has elbowed the male rela- tives out of the way, according to their representations, in a v... ...ng the rose in the key-hole; the ‘Marie’ upon the slate; the ‘elbowing the male relatives out of the way;’ the ‘aversion to permitting them to see the...

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...Contents EDGAR ALLAN POE AN APPRECIATION ............................................................................................................. 4 EDGAR ALLAN POE BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ............................................