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...Poe's Life and Times," Dr. Carpenter, Harvard...
Baudelaire's gloomy intensity and obvious poetic ability, soon made him a marked man in a Paris that swarmed with talents. One of the first Frenchmen to discover Edgar Allan Poe (whom he considered his affinity), Baudelaire was Poe's French translator, and some critics aver the translation betters the original. With no sense of money, he was never out of debt; and his poverty, complicated by Luciferian pride and creeping illness, might have brought him to an unknown end had it not been for his mother and his friends who loved him. He died...
...decided success. Apart from the fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public he is already becoming a Character, classed with Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Lord Byron, among the rips, rakes, and naughty fellows of the arts...
Progress: "Intellectual contacts have grown up between our two peoples. Italians fully recognize the contribution made by the United States to modern progress. The name of Edison is familiar to us all; so in the field of letters and philosophy are those of Longfellow, Whitman, Poe, Mark Twain, William James. I myself am a great admirer of Emerson and James. In the field of statesmanship Washington, Franklin and more lately Roosevelt are names which arouse our admiration." Bolshevism: "Our trade relations with Russia are of economic value to us, but they do not affect our internal policies. Fascism and Bolshevism...
Sirs: Two months ago, a friend called my attention to the notice in your magazine about my action in chiseling off the offending letter "s" from the Poe monument in Wyman Park Baltimore (TIME, June 16). The statement that I did the work under cover of darkness is false, as I did it an hour before dark, and with five men looking on-all of whom approved except one, who called a policeman. I did not pay much attention to the error in your magazine until recently, when rumors and stories have been circulated about me as a prowler...