Word: poe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to the Dickens works, there are on display, a number of presentation copies of Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling and President Lowell...
...mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly in a protest against the prevailing badness", Sinclair Lewis...
Naturally, a book of this scope has its deficiencies. For example, though containing an estimate of Henry Adams's historical philosophy, the equally significant work of Brooks on Adams is neglected. One feels a lack of understanding in the author's treatment of Poe, and also a hint of the unpractical--despite his appreciation of genuine scientific achievement--in his dismissal of Upton Sinclair's "Industrial Republic" as too utilitarian. For transcendentalism alone as a living force is found wanting by the same canons with which Mr. Mumford condemned the humanism of the Renaissance--it failed to affect the great...
...extend the advantages of a liberal university to many classes, and not only to select young bloods such as needy Poet Poe found and tried to live up to at Virginia, that President Alderman strove from the first for a bigger university. Now his appeal to the intelligent farming class, of which Virginia like the whole country has great need, will be fortified...
...Poe, as one of that early group who may be said to have founded American literature, as the former of the modern short story, and as the first father of that modern second cousin of legitimate fiction, the detective story, is of superlative importance as a literary figure, besides having lived a life that burned itself out with its own intensity in a brief span of years...