Word: poe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guild is dying out, and many of his old gaffers with it, but Chet has enough material in Three Rivers to last his lifetime. "There'll always be somebody to write about," he says. "Like Ossy Poe, who just died the other day. Only man in the world that liked horseradish on his doughnuts in the morning...
...vigorous doctoring of texts (i.e., cutting, rearranging, shearing off excess dialect) Editor Aswell has adapted them for what he calls "modern reading." His conception of humor is broad enough to embrace Irving, Poe and Edward Everett, but he also includes the best of the true-blue local colorists, nateral-born liars and ringtailed roarers. Among them...
...Wuthering Heights, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Chesterfield's Letters, Art in the Armed Forces, Moll Flanders, Crime and Punishment, A Farewell to Arms, Isherwood's Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud's Season in Hell, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Ward's The Snake Pit, Wakeman's The Hucksters...
Their first assistant was Edgar Allan Poe; their first book review was J. G. Whittier's report (favorable) on Longfellow's Evangeline. Willis and Morris crammed down the throats of "the upper 10,000" the new works of De Quincey, Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand and anyone else they could buy or steal...
...proposal was made by E. Scully Bradley, chairman of American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, who demanded more of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, and Wait Whitman while asserting at the 36th annual meeting, held in Atlantic City, that three-quarters of the country's high school teachers of English were trained primarily in English literature...