Word: poe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond is truly sorry that his old favorite Edgar Allen Poe did not write after 1870, for although he has always enjoyed the author's short stories with a chill of horror, let it be said, nevertheless, that he would like to have some authority tell the story of Poe's death in a gutter. The Vagabond feels that, inasmuch as that is a very possible end for him, he would like to know that geniuses before him have met the same fate...
...this, believe it or not, is leading up to the fact that Professor Murdock is giving a lecture on "The American Short Story since 1870" this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 1, at which the Vagabond expects to be present. For even if Poe is his favorite, he likes to wipe the cold sweat off his brow every now and then and enjoy the tales of O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, and many others whom Professor Murdock will probably cover...
Authoress Corbett has written an absorbing and unique biography by means of a series of short dramatic scenes and purported dialogues?between Whitman and others and betwee Allen Poe to "two Dartmouth Seniors." The book presents a graphic account of a man who wished to live his life into his poetry...
...Edgar Allen Poe," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...does not appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that Poe...