The World of Edgar Allan Poe
The truth was stranger than his fiction
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Monday, January 3, 2011
A Particularly Questionable Poe Letter
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"My dear little wife grew much better from the very first day after taking the Jew's Beer. It seemed to have the most instantaneou...
Monday, December 20, 2010
The Literary Life of Joseph Cosey, Esq.
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The period of the 1920s-1950s was a Golden Age for Edgar Allan Poe-related "discoveries." During these years, many previously unk...
Thursday, October 22, 2009
"Leonainie" - A Cautionary Tale [Updated]
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In 1877, a struggling young Kokomo, Indiana poet named James Whitcomb Riley stated to friends that his lack of literary success was due to t...
Monday, September 7, 2009
Caveat emptor
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I found that quote I was referring to in my previous post. It comes from Charles Hamilton, who was a premier autograph and manuscript exper...
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