Monday, July 30, 2012

In Which I Am All At Sea. As Usual.

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Pauline, popular proprietor of the peerless "Pauline’s Pirates and Privateers" potpourri, has done yours truly the undeserved hon...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Lawyers, Gold-Bugs, and Money (Part Two)

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“No doubt you will think me fanciful--but I had already established a kind of connexion .” -“The Gold-Bug” In 1876, the magazine "Notes...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Lawyers, Gold-Bugs, and Money (Part One of Two)

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“Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles…” -“The Gold-Bug” Poe scholars are familiar with hi...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Quote of the Day

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On this day in 1836, the publishing house Harper & Brothers sent Poe a letter declining to publish a collection of his stories. Along w...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Edgar Allan Poe, Matinee Idol

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Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a thea...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Speaking Up For Those Who Can No Longer Speak For Themselves

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That seeker of historical justice Kathryn Warner has started, on her marvelous Edward II blog , a "Don't Defame the Dead" cam...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Sergeant Major Edgar Allan Poe

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IN MEMORIAM EDGAR ALLAN POE BORN MDCCCIX—DIED MDCCCXLIX How dark a woe! Yet how sublime a hope! How silently serene a sea of pride! How dari...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Marginalia

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This post is designed to provide a home for a few stray bits of Poeana I've encountered here and there. 1. The Case of the Postponed Pym...