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Space Operas & Utopia. The four founding fathers of "science fiction" are generally acknowledged to be Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells. In the U.S., Will F. Jenkins, a 27-year veteran, who also writes under the pen name of Murray Leinster, is regarded as the dean of writers in the field. Best of the lot, according to expert editors, are Robert Heinlein and A. E. van Vogt...
...book of poems published in 1947, is an Amherst College graduate who received his A.M. from Harvard in 1947. One of his poems. "The Puritan," appeared in the latest issue of the Advocate. He will give a course here next year, English 271, on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe...
Cecil M. Bowra, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will discuss the work of Edgar Allan Poe in the second of a series of lectures on "The Romantic Imagination" at 8 p. m. tonight in New Lecture Hall...
Actors' Studio (Sun. 8:30 p.m., ABC-TV). Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart...
Strictly as an account of Dreiser's bitter early years, this is one of the best biographies of an American literary figure since Israfel, Hervey Allen's life of Poe. Its report of Dreiser's last years is perfunctory and its criticism of his work is so noncommittal that the reader has trouble in fathoming Author Elias' own opinion. But Dreiser's youth in the gaslit underworld of Terre Haute, his work in the rowdy newspaper and music publishing houses of the turn of the century, and above all, the gaudy entrances & exits...