One of my favorite literary geniuses, Edgar Allan Poe, died on October 7, 1849. Edgar Allan Poe is dead. . . . This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was well known, personally or by reputation, in all this country; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe; but he had few or no friends; and the regrets for his death will be suggested principally by the consideration that in him literary art has lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars. —“Death of Edgar A. Poe,” New-York Daily Tribune, October 9, 1849
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 05:23:59 +0000
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