Word: poe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richmond, Va., 103 years ago, a struggling 64-page magazine called the Southern Literary Messenger, then a year old, published a short story called Berenice. It was by an unknown 26-year-old writer named Edgar Allan Poe, who had been recommended to the editor, as "very clever with his pen . . . highly imaginative and a little terrific." Shortly afterwards, at a salary of $10 a week, Poe became editor of the Messenger...
Seventeen months later, the publisher was as "sick of his writings as I am of him." But before he was fired Poe had skyrocketed the circulation from 600 to 5,500, and the Messenger had become the most famed Southern literary magazine of all time. With such famed foreign contributors as Longfellow, Thackeray, John Quincy Adams, it survived until June 1864. (By that time the subscription price had jumped from $5 to $15 a year, Confederate money.) But when its printers were called to defend Richmond, the Southern Literary Messenger suspended publication...
More conventional in his choice of genius, John Cowper Powys finds no difficulty in swallowing Nietzsche, Milton, Poe, Dickens, Proust, all at one gulp. Of all literary "appreciations" his are the most fulsome, the most ardent, the most consciously designed to engulf readers with a vicarious sense of cosmic genius. And hence Powys' book is the more likely to be read, since, like Durant's Story of Philosophy, it enables readers to enjoy the classics without reading them...
...fountains. The name Yaddo was a baby pronunciation given by the Trask children (all four of whom died in childhood) to The Shadows, a famous inn formerly on the site of the Trask estate, where the Trasks had spent their summers. It was one of the dozen places where Poe was supposed to have written The Raven, and Katrina Trask said it inspired her own poetry. At the centre of the estate is a three-story Gothic mansion, whose vast rooms are carpeted with costly Persian rugs, lined with books and paintings, filled with bric-a-brac including everything from...
...Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath him. When Fanny published her U. S. travel impressions, which made a scandalous success, her in-laws' opinion was echoed even by Poe...