Israfet The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe Ey Hervey Allen In Two Volumes Volume I New York George EL Doran Company 1927 Copyright, 1926, by George EL Doran Company Second Edition THIB PLIMPTON PRBgfl NORWOOD PRINTB0 IN THSJ UWTITBD HTATEB OV A M li it 1 A. Edgar Allan Poe as a Young Man From a daguerreotype probably taken in Baltimore in the early Courtesy of the A dryland Historical Society For Mary Lucy Allen - . - s.. SsCa. - t 4t. . sSirjusr ifS- sX Poes Own Comment on His Childhood From a poem clipped from the album of a Mr. BALDERSTONE of Baltimore, by . L. DIDIER. The date and title are in DIDIERS hand, and the date is in correct. POE was at Fortress Monroe on March 17, 1829. The poem probably belongs to sometime later in 1829 before FOB entered West Point PREFACE IT IS not the intention in this preface to attempt to pre sent, in condensed form, a critical estimate of the great figure whose semblance, at least, walks through the pages of this biography. A long, laborious, and conscientious consideration of the immense amount of material concerning Poe, has convinced the author that any brief, comfortably clever, and convenient presentation of his character, either from a literary, psychological, or romantic standpoint is bound to be misleading. So diverse, so conflicting, and so astoundingly confusing was the life experience of Edgar Allan Poe that, in comparison, the lives of many other men of letters are a simple tale. The method followed here has been to disregard, for the most part, the findings of all other biographers who have worked in the field, and to depend totally upon source mate rial drawn from contemporary documents, letters, and the evidence given by those whosaw, talked with, and, to some extent, knew the man. No matter how great the authority, or scholarship of those who lived after Poe died, it is felt that the evidence of those who affirm, I saw him, talked with him, on such and such an occasion he did, or said, or appeared thus and thus is of more value than theories, be they ever so erudite and clever This biography, then, is the story of Edgar Allan Poe, and the strange forgotten America in which he lived, and perished, reconstructed from the direct evidence latent in the docu ments, letters, books, and illustrations of the period from about 1800 to 1850. Neither expense, effort, nor meticulous care have been spared in assembling this data, in which proc ess, the courtesy, advice, and enthusiasm of those who have vii vffi PREFACE been drawn upon for aid, or for source material in their right or custody, have been truly encouraging and have, indeed, made this work possible during the past four years. There are a great many Lives of Poe. This differs from all others in that, for the first time, it tells the complete story of the man, from birth to death, and makes reasonably clear the mystery which has hitherto surrounded the first half of his life and the formative processes of youth. For mer biographers because of the inaccessibility of material, withheld, for sufficient personal reasons, have been largely compelled to project Poe as a somewhat enigmatical torso, with the base draped in convenient and impressive folds. It is purely an accidental circumstance, but nevertheless an important one, that the passing of time has brought about the release of sources, hitherto inaccessible, which now make it possible to tell amply the strange, and startling story of Poes youth. There is no longer any necessity for talking about the Poe mystery, indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that there are few other literary figures whose personal life is so fully documented. There exists in the files of the firm of Ellis Allan, the business house in which Poes guardian was a partner, a surprisingly complete record of the daily life of the family, and community in which Poe lived during his youth...

Israfel The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe By Hervey Allen In Two Volumes Volume II New York George H, Doran Company 1927 Copyright, 1926, by George H. Doran Company Second Edition THE PLIMPTON PBBS8 NORWOOD MASSACHUSETTS PBINTBD IN THE UNITED STATUS O7 AMBBICA The Poet of the Latter Years Edgar Allan Poe about the Autumn of 1848 From a photograph of the Whitman daguerreotype Contents to Volume II Chapter XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI CARMINE STREET 409 GROTESQUES AND ARABESQUES 425 HIGH TIDE 481 SPRING GARDEN STREET 519 THE RAVEN AND His SHADOW 582 THE LITERATI AND THE FORDHAM PASTORAL 669 THE UNIVERSE AND MRS, SHEW 730 A HANDKERCHIEF SOAKED IN ETHER 754 LENORE AND THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 791 XXVII AN APPEAL TO HIGHER AUTHORITY 841 Appendices I NOTES ON FOES ANCESTRY 851 II GALT CORRESPONDENCE, ETC 854 III WILLS OF WILLIAM GALT, AND JOHN ALLAN 857 IV POES BROTHER 874 V FIRST MARRIAGE OF POE AND VDRGINIA CLEMM 880 VI HISTORY OF POES FRIEND, F. W. THOMAS 882 VII LETTERS FROM UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA IN 1826 889 VIII LETTERS FROM MARIA CLEMM, AND DR. J. J, MORAN 894 DC POE-NEIL CORRESPONDENCE, AND POUTIAN 897 Illustrations to Volume II The Poet of the Latter Years Frontispiece Facsimile from Part of a Letter of Poe to Mrs. Helen Whitman x Poes Residence at 13 Carmine Street, New York City, in 1837 413 Title Pages to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym 418 A Characteristic Incident in Philadelphia of the 1840 438 The Philadelphia Markets and the Horns of Plenty 439 The Concholo gists First Book or, A System of Testaceous Malacology 442 Title Page of Burtons Gentlemans Magazine 452 The Pagoda 460 Philadelphia in the 1840 461 Title Pages of Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque 462William Burton 482 George Rex Graham 482 The Rev. Rufus W. Griswold 483 A Pic-nic on the Wissahickon 502 Laurel Hill Cemetery 502 A Philadelphia Shop of the Early 1840 5 503 The Title Page to one of George Lippards Phila delphia Novels 522 Charles Dickens 528 Henry W. Longfellow 529 Poes Spring Garden Street House 534 Captain Mayne Reid 535 vii viii ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME II Reproduction of the Page of the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper 564 Title Page of The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe 574 The Fashions of the Literati 600 Portrait of Edgar A. Poe 601 The House in which The Raven was finished in 1844, near Eighty-fourth Street and Broadway, New York City 602 Edgar A. Poe about 1845 603 N. P. Willis 620 Dr. Thomas Holley Chivers 621 Part of the First Text of The Raven 629 Frances Sargent Osgood 642 Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt 643 Title Page of Tales, by Edgar A. Poe 658 Title Page of The Raven and Other Poems 666 Poes Cottage at Fordham 697 Virginia Poe 728 Mrs. Maria Clemm 729 Title Page of Eureka 744 Robert Stanard 778 Sarah Helen Whitman 778 Edgar A. Poe 779 Poes Own Design for the Cover of the Stylus 810 Moyamensing Prison 811 Robert Sulley 824 The Fatal Letter 825 Duncan Lodge 838 Poes Trunk and Boot Hooks 839 Baltimore in 1849 842 nhl 3 WM uru K y 6 - fU 4vu W. Israfel CHAPTER XVIII Carmine Street THE journey from Richmond to New York occupied several weeks. Poe was accompanied by his little family through Baltimore and Philadelphia, where, in both cities, various relatives, friends, and literary acquaintances were called upon. In Baltimore there can be little doubt that Poe conferred with Kennedy, who was thoroughly acquainted with the reasons for the move. The severance of theconnection with Mr. White of the Messenger was a serious matter, in point of salary and influence. There must have been personal complica tions between the older man and his brilliant young assistant which induced Mr. White to part with Poe more readily than might otherwise have been the case. From a purely business standpoint, there was every reason why Mr. White should desire him to remain. The other reasons were afterward referred to vaguely by both Mr. Kennedy and Poe himself...

Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen’s Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the Twenty-eighth Division saw extensive action on the Western Front. The story begins with Lieutenant Allen and his men marching inland from the French coast and ends with their participation in the disastrous battle for the village of Fismette. Allen was a talented observer, and the men with whom he served emerge as well-rounded characters against the horrific backdrop of the war. As a historical document, Toward the Flame is significant for its highly detailed account of the controversial military action at Fismette. At the same time, it easily stands as a work of literature. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, Allen employs the novelist’s powers of description to create a harrowing portrait of coalition war at its worst.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

1928. This work contains poems and ballads of Central Asia translated out of the Afghan, the Persian, the Turkoman, the Tarantchi, the Bokharan, the Balochi, and the Tartar tongues, together with an introduction and historical and philological annotations.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

DuBose Heyward (1885 -1940) was an American author best known for his 1924 novel Porgy. This novel was the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess. Heyward worked in real estate and insurance. When he was financially secure he left business to start a writing career. Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country was first published in 1922. The Low Country was originally settled by Frenchman, Spaniards, and Englishman, each leaving their own legends. Heyward describes this volume as poetry rather than history. Poems include Seance at Sunrise, Silences, Presences, The Pirates, The Sewees of Sewee Bay, La Fayette Lands, Legend of Theodosia Burr, The Priest and the Pirate, Palmetto Town, Carolina Spring Song, The First Submarine, The Last Crew, a collection of Negro poems, Cooper River Legends, and more.

Israfet The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe Ey Hervey Allen In Two Volumes Volume I New York George EL Doran Company 1927 Copyright, 1926, by George EL Doran Company Second Edition THIB PLIMPTON PRBgfl NORWOOD PRINTB0 IN THSJ UWTITBD HTATEB OV A M li it 1 A. Edgar Allan Poe as a Young Man From a daguerreotype probably taken in Baltimore in the early Courtesy of the A dryland Historical Society For Mary Lucy Allen - . - s.. SsCa. - t 4t. . sSirjusr ifS- sX Poes Own Comment on His Childhood From a poem clipped from the album of a Mr. BALDERSTONE of Baltimore, by . L. DIDIER. The date and title are in DIDIERS hand, and the date is in correct. POE was at Fortress Monroe on March 17, 1829. The poem probably belongs to sometime later in 1829 before FOB entered West Point PREFACE IT IS not the intention in this preface to attempt to pre sent, in condensed form, a critical estimate of the great figure whose semblance, at least, walks through the pages of this biography. A long, laborious, and conscientious consideration of the immense amount of material concerning Poe, has convinced the author that any brief, comfortably clever, and convenient presentation of his character, either from a literary, psychological, or romantic standpoint is bound to be misleading. So diverse, so conflicting, and so astoundingly confusing was the life experience of Edgar Allan Poe that, in comparison, the lives of many other men of letters are a simple tale. The method followed here has been to disregard, for the most part, the findings of all other biographers who have worked in the field, and to depend totally upon source mate rial drawn from contemporary documents, letters, and the evidence given by those whosaw, talked with, and, to some extent, knew the man. No matter how great the authority, or scholarship of those who lived after Poe died, it is felt that the evidence of those who affirm, I saw him, talked with him, on such and such an occasion he did, or said, or appeared thus and thus is of more value than theories, be they ever so erudite and clever This biography, then, is the story of Edgar Allan Poe, and the strange forgotten America in which he lived, and perished, reconstructed from the direct evidence latent in the docu ments, letters, books, and illustrations of the period from about 1800 to 1850. Neither expense, effort, nor meticulous care have been spared in assembling this data, in which proc ess, the courtesy, advice, and enthusiasm of those who have vii vffi PREFACE been drawn upon for aid, or for source material in their right or custody, have been truly encouraging and have, indeed, made this work possible during the past four years. There are a great many Lives of Poe. This differs from all others in that, for the first time, it tells the complete story of the man, from birth to death, and makes reasonably clear the mystery which has hitherto surrounded the first half of his life and the formative processes of youth. For mer biographers because of the inaccessibility of material, withheld, for sufficient personal reasons, have been largely compelled to project Poe as a somewhat enigmatical torso, with the base draped in convenient and impressive folds. It is purely an accidental circumstance, but nevertheless an important one, that the passing of time has brought about the release of sources, hitherto inaccessible, which now make it possible to tell amply the strange, and startling story of Poes youth. There is no longer any necessity for talking about the Poe mystery, indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that there are few other literary figures whose personal life is so fully documented. There exists in the files of the firm of Ellis Allan, the business house in which Poes guardian was a partner, a surprisingly complete record of the daily life of the family, and community in which Poe lived during his youth...

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