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Most U. S. citizens think of Edgar Allan Poe as a morose genius who wrote horrible stories magnificently and died of drink. Many remember that he was one. of New York's most dogmatic literary critics, that he helped invent the detective story. A few know that he was a soldier for three years, for three months a West...
Point cadet. Three small pencil portraits in battered gilt frames arrived in New York last week to remind people that Edgar Allan Poe was also an artist and a draughtsman...
...portraits arrived in custody of astute Gabriel Wells, who vies for newspaper space with Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach as premier U. S. rare-book seller. One was a self-portrait, one was of Mrs. Sarah E. Shelton, traditionally Poe's inspiration for "Annabel Lee." The third was of his tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest...
...self portrait of Poe is in one way the greatest find of all. the date is probably late 1845. It not only represents him in his prime, but the self portrait is probably the most satisfactory picture we have of him at this period. In this he has given us with surprising skill for an amateur what the author of 'The Raven' thought he looked like...
...Clemm Poe. It is said that the only other picture that is accessible was made after her death. But here we have her as her husband saw her-a most romantic and tragic lady, the poet's best love...