Showing posts with label Thomas Dunn English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Dunn English. Show all posts
Monday, May 2, 2011

My Interview With Edgar

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"The mysteries of his [Poe's] life were never revealed to anyone, but his intimates well understood that to mystify his hearer was...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Two Prototypical Poe Novels

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Poe has appeared (either as a primary or secondary character) is an astonishing number of novels. Unfortunately, nearly all of these novels...
Monday, May 3, 2010

The Devil's Law-Case (Part One)

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"The touchstone by which falsehood is detected is inconsistency. In a true narrative, inconsistencies are impossible." -Jeremy Be...
Monday, March 8, 2010

The Silence of the Lummis

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...or, The Case of the Brother Who Didn't Bark. When Edgar Allan Poe sued the "New York Mirror" for libel in 1846, one of the ...
Monday, January 4, 2010

Poe and Thomas Dunn English

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It is well-known among students of Edgar Allan Poe that he and Thomas Dunn English became the most bitter of enemies in 1846, a feud which c...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Marginalia

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A few random thoughts: Am I the only one slightly spooked by the fact that Thomas Dunn English named his youngest son--born years after his ...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Mrs. Ellet's Letters (Part Two)

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The little evidence left to us does indicate that, sometime late in January of 1846, there was a dispute involving Edgar Allan Poe and lette...
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...