Sunday, January 29, 2012

Walt Whitman and "The Raven"

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"The Raven," as you may already know, saw its probable first publication (in the New York "Evening Mirror") on this day ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Happy Birthday To You...

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"If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Plagiarism Carnival #2

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...Although, by this point, perhaps it would be more appropriate to forget about carnivals, and start in on the "Masque of the Red Deat...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

"Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!"

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" What I here propound is true :--therefore it cannot die--or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will 'rise ...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year From the World of Poe

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Ringing in the New Year at Washington Cathedral: ...What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Decking the Halls, Edgar Allan Poe Style

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A little gem I found on YouTube. Poe! Poe! Poe! Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Plagiarism Carnival #1

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“We repeat that ‘somebody is a thief,’ and the only doubt in our mind is about the sincerity of any one who shall say that somebody is not....
Thursday, December 8, 2011

In Which We Recall the Old Saying, "It's Not the Crime, It's the Cover-Up"

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"But the man who shall deny the plagiarism abstractly--what is it that he calls upon us to believe?...Now the chances that these...coin...