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Edgar Poe and His Critics (Classic Reprint)
Edgar Poe and His Critics - Classic Reprint Author:Sarah Helen Whitman EDGAR POE AND HIS CRITICS. Tnv. author of the "Original Memoir" prefixed to the volume of Foe's "Illustrated Poems," recently published by Rcdfield, says, "Of all the poets whose lives have been a puzzle and a mystery to the world, there is not one more difficult lo be understood than Edgar Allan Toe." The Rev. George Gilfilkm, in his very imagi... more »native portraiture of the poet, admits that the moral anatomists who have met and wondered over his life, have given up all attempts at dissection and diagnosis, turning awav with the solemnly whispered warning to the world, and especially to its more brilliant and gifted intellects, " lie ware ! " J fe confesses that a history so strange as thai of Kdgar Toe should prompt us to new and more searching methods of critical as well as moral analysis. Hut before such analysis can bo insli-tilted, we must have fuller, mure dispassionate,
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