The Poe Cult And Other Poe Papers With a New Memoir
The book The Poe Cult And Other Poe Papers With a New Memoir was written by author Didier, Eugène Lemoine, 1838-1913 Here you can read free online of The Poe Cult And Other Poe Papers With a New Memoir book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Poe Cult And Other Poe Papers With a New Memoir a good or bad book?
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Lies were invented, facts falsified, the truth tortured into falsehood, and everything was done to blast forever the poet's memory. Upon this unscrupulous memoir the author of "The Raven" has been misjudged by many persons for more than fifty years. It is much easier to start a falsehood than to stop it when once on its travels. No man has suffered more from slander, living and dead, than Ed- gar A. Poe. I have been at much trouble in order to obtain the truth about the poet, from his earliest ...years to his tragical death. I have consulted with the living, and unearthed the opinions of the dead, and this is the result: When a schoolboy in Richmond, Poe's teacher was Prof. Joseph H. Clarke, who, in speaking of his famous pupil, described him as having a "tender and sensitive heart"; he said he was "a boy who would do anything to serve a friend," and that "his nature was en- 89 Cfte poe Cult tirely free from selfishness, the most common fault of boyhood." One of his classmates, Col. John' T.
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