Word: poe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poe & Goc/ey...
This is fine. Anybody could have said it once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...
Insuranceman Stevenson will soon move to Bryn Mawr, has a son at Princeton. He amuses himself collecting first editions of Scott, Dickens, Twain, Poe and Whitman. His prize possession: the manuscript of Whitman's autobiography, which he picked up for a pittance from a busted bootlegger...
...every mail bringing to publishers' desks fresh evidence of the South's literary ferment. In England (where T. S. Eliot's Criterion has called The Southern Review, published at Baton Rouge, La., the best American literary magazine), in France (where William Faulkner is compared to Poe), in the U. S. (where Gone With the Wind has sold 1,750,000 copies), the literary rise of the South looks like the biggest thing in U. S. letters...
Last week the Southern Literary Messenger was revived, in format a duplicate of its old self. Dedicated to "a renaissance in Southern literature," its new editor is Richmond-born Frieda Meredith Dietz, 34, who in childhood "listened for the echo" of Poe's footsteps in the old Messenger building, where her father ran a print shop. (Her brother, August Dietz Jr., 36, is publisher...