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Thornton N. Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, portrayed Edgar Allen Poe as a "detective, criminal, and victim" in Sanders Theatre last night. This was the initial talk of a second series of Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
Wilder's speech was not primarily a description of Poe's sufferings, for "they do not make his writings one jot better. . . . Intellects are not made by suffering," Rather, he described the writer "in and for himself," by looking at various examples of his work "as facets of his emanation...
...Poe--Detective, Criminal, Victim" is the subject of Wilder's lecture at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...general, it still works. In fact, the Tales may win for his old age (he is now 81) a literary reputation he never enjoyed at the height of his fame. They show him to be one of the most original writers in the line that descends from Edgar Poe to the authors of Mandrake the Magician, and in which he has few peers (some of them: M. R. James, Henry James, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, W. W. Jacobs...
...which includes the name of every young man admitted as a cadet . . . Nor is he listed as a non-graduate of the class of 1903. In any case, at least one poet of note who was admitted to the Academy remained longer than two weeks-Edgar Allan Poe...