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Showing posts with label "Broadway Journal". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Broadway Journal". Show all posts
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Why It Was Never a Good Idea to Send Poe Hate Mail

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Today, we look back fondly on a minor Poe feud that took place this week in 1845. Obscure an incident as it may be, I felt it was still wor...
Monday, July 12, 2010

The Strange Life and Death of the "Broadway Journal" (Part Three)

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"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform." -"Berenice" Whatever the true story may have been, the Br...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

The Strange Life and Death of the "Broadway Journal" (Part Two)

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"For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known..." -"Shadow--A Parable" The means of blowing away a...
Monday, June 28, 2010

The Strange Life and Death of the "Broadway Journal" (Part One)

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"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told." -"The Man of the Crowd" January 3, 1846 marked the f...
Monday, April 12, 2010

The "Broadway Journal" Poems

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One of the more irritating traits found among Poe's biographers is their tendency to repeat the same statements over and over without ev...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Broadway Journal, R.I.P.

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On January 2, 1846, Cornelia Walter, editor of the "Boston Transcript" (who had been conducting a public feud with Poe for several...
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