Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes

Author:Kevin J. Hayes [Hayes, Kevin J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-86189-706-0
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2009-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Andalusia, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, south elevation, showing hexastyle doric portico.

Shortly after returning from Andalusia, Poe was stricken ill and confined to bed for around a month. Consequently, he had to delay his plans for the Penn Magazine, the first number of which he had hoped to issue in January 1841. March was his new goal. In the first week of January he wrote Biddle to inform him of the delay but also to ask another favour. Poe hoped he would contribute an article to the magazine’s first issue:

Without friends in Philadelphia, except among literary men as uninfluential as myself, I would at once be put in a good position – I mean in respect to that all important point, caste – by having it known that you were not indifferent to my success. You will not accuse me of intending the meanness of flattery to serve as a selfish purpose, when I say that your name has an almost illimitable influence in the city, and a vast influence in all quarters of the country.25

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