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...Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession, he links his premonitions of death and damnation with the fates of Keats, Poe and Kafka...
...hands, the Gazette continued to thrive. In 1821 its name was changed to the Saturday Evening Post-a misnomer then as now, since the magazine never has appeared on Saturday (it now comes out Tuesdays). As publisher of some of the best 19th century fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early flair...
...Poe. The plea was made by Dr. Charles Lee Buxton, 56. chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University and of the obstetric services at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. He made his case by citing the plights of two of his patients, pseudonymously listed as Mrs. Doe and Mrs. Poe...
...Pauline Poe. 28, has had three pregnancies, all of which ended in the birth of grotesquely malformed babies that died in a few days or weeks. "Another pregnancy would be extremely disturbing to the Poes' physical and mental health.'' in Dr. Buxton's professional opinion...
Appealing against rulings by Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors, the Buxton-Doe-Poe plaintiffs argued before the full nine-man U.S. bench that...