Word: poe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...four short stories scarcely merit individual notice. Two of them are fairly flat, and the most that need be said of the other two, "The Murderer," and "The Villa Blashka," is that they keep us from forgetting, by their gratuitous recourse to the unusual, that a Poe centenary has just come and gone
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Poe's Influence in France." Professor Babbitt. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Poe's Influence in France." Professor Babbitt. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...doubtless a general approval of the editorial plea for the study of poetry as literature; such study, the article properly adds, will not be open to the charge of dilettantism if it rests on a basis of sound philological and historical scholarship. The Advocate hopes to see justice done Poe when the Puritan shall have passed--but why shall not justice be done him now? In fact there is a suggestion of Poe in "The Cat and the Mouse"--an effective story, with some thing of Poe's grim despair and situations full of horror; the tone is different from...
...Copeland will deliver a brief address on Edgar Allan Poe in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet, in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. He will also read "The Black Cat" and several of Poe's poems. "The Black Cat" is one of the most striking of Poe's short stories. The rapidity of the action, the deliberateness with which the most grewsome and revolting details are described, and the sudden climax unite in producing a story of tremendous power. The reading will be open to members...