Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn & Shawn Rosenheim

Author:Arthur Hobson Quinn & Shawn Rosenheim [Quinn, Arthur Hobson]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Crane also tells us that the circulation of the Journal was less than one thousand, of which half was on the mailing list.19

How seriously Poe took this crusade against plagiarism is seen in his long letter to J. Hunt, Jr., Editor of the National Archives, defending himself against the latter’s criticisms of Poe’s attack.20 The defence is hardly successful, but one paragraph dealing with Poe’s general policy of criticism is worth preserving: “Let me put it to you as to a frank man of honor—Can you suppose it possible that any human being could pursue a strictly impartial course of criticism for 10 years (as I have done in the S. L. Messenger and in Graham’s Magazine) without offending irreparably a host of authors and their connexions?—but because these were offended, and gave vent at every opportunity to their spleen, would you consider my course an iota the less honorable on that account? Would you consider it just to measure my deserts by the yelpings of my foes, indepently [sic] of your own judgment in the premises, based upon an actual knowledge of what I have done?”

As soon as he had definitely joined the staff of the Broadway Journal, Poe proceeded to reprint his poems and stories in it.21 Poe did not make as many changes in his poems as he did in his stories. He had revised a number of the poems for the Saturday Museum in 1843. Yet his constant care is shown in the replacement of two verses in “The Sleeper”:

“The wanton airs, from the treetop

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