Edgar Allan Poe (23 page)

29
Ibid., pp. 65–6.

30
Poe to James Kirke Paulding, 19 July 1838, in
Letters
, vol.
II
, p. 681.

31
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 248.

32
Poe to Evert A. Duyckinck, 8 January 1846, in
Letters
, vol.
II
, p. 309.

1
Poe to Nathan C. Brooks, 4 September 1838, in Edgar Allan Poe,
Letters
, ed. John Ward Ostrom, 2 vols (New York, 1966), vol.
I
, p. 111.

2
N. P. Willis, ‘Letters from Under a Bridge’,
New-York Mirror
, 1 December 1838, p. 180.

3
Poe to John Allan, 29 May 1829, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 20.

4
Edgar Allan Poe,
Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831
, ed. William F. Hecker (Baton Rouge,
LA
, 2005), p. 16.

5
Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, 7 June 1836, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 94.

6
Poe to Nathan C. Brooks, 4 September 1838, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 112.

7
‘American Museum of Literature and the Fine Arts’, [Charlestown]
Virginia Free Press
, 19 January 1839.

8
Edgar Allan Poe,
Collected Works
, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 vols (Cambridge,
MA
, 1969–78), vol.
II
, p. 334.

9
Ibid., pp. 338, 340.

10
Mary Louise Shew,
Water-Cure for Ladies
, ed. Joel Shew (New York, 1844), pp. 94–5.

11
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
II
, pp. 335–6.

12
Henry Watterson, quoted by Eugénie Paul Jefferson,
Intimate Recollections of Joseph Jefferson
(New York, 1909), p. 349.

13
Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson,
The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849
(Boston,
MA
, 1987), p. 254.

14
Ibid., p. 262.

15
Thomas Dunn English, ‘Reminiscences of Poe’,
Independent
,
XLXIII
(1896), p. 1415.

16
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 265.

17
Ibid., p. 266.

18
Ibid., p. 268.

19
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
II
, pp. 386, 388.

20
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 274.

21
Poe to Joseph E. Snodgrass, 17 June 1840, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, pp. 137–8.

22
Geoffrey Rans,
Edgar Allan Poe
(Edinburgh, 1965), p. 1.

23
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 278.

24
Ibid., pp. 276–7.

25
Charles W. Frederickson,
Catalogue, Part First-[Second] of the Collection of Books, Autographs, &c., the Property of C. W. Frederickson
(New York, 1886–7), lot 1773.

26
Clarence S. Brigham, ed.,
Edgar Allan Poe’s Contributions to Alexander’s Weekly Messenger
(Worcester,
MA
, 1943), p. 27.

27
Poe to Frederick W. Thomas, 23 November 1840, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 148.

28
F. W. Thomas, quoted by Mary E. Phillips,
Edgar Allan Poe: The Man
, 2 vols (Chicago,
IL
, 1926), vol.
II
, p. 1010.

29
Poe to Frederick W. Thomas, 23 November 1840, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 148.

30
Kevin J. Hayes,
Poe and the Printed Word
(Cambridge, 2000), pp. 70–73.

31
Poe to William Poe, 15 August 1840, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 141.

1
Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson,
The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849
(Boston,
MA
, 1987), p. 362;
Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the University of Sydney
(Sydney, 1885), p. 299; ‘The Irish Gentleman and the Little Frenchman’,
Bentley’s Miscellany
,
VIII
(1840), pp. 45–8.

2
‘The Irish Gentleman and the Little Frenchman’,
Spirit of the Times
, 1 August 1840, pp. 254–5.

3
Kevin J. Hayes, ‘The Flaneur in the Parlor: Poe’s “Philosophy of Furniture”’,
Prospects
,
XXVII
(2002), p. 103.

4
Clarence S. Brigham, ed.,
Edgar Allan Poe’s Contributions to Alexander’s Weekly Messenger
(Worcester,
MA
, 1943), p. 15.

5
Edgar Allan Poe,
Collected Works
, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 vols (Cambridge,
MA
, 1969–978), vol.
II
, p. 500.

6
Brett Zimmerman,
Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style
(Montreal, 2005), p. 76.

7
Edgar A. Poe, ‘A Chapter on Autography’,
Graham’s Magazine
,
XIX
(1841), pp. 276, 282.

8
[George Combe,] ‘On the Natural Supremacy of the Moral Sentiments’,
Phrenological Journal and Miscellany
,
III
(1825–6), p. 337.

9
Edgar Allan Poe,
Essays and Reviews
, ed. G. R. Thompson (New York, 1984), p. 1208.

10
Poe to F. W. Thomas, 27 October 1841, in Edgar Allan Poe,
Letters
, ed. John Ward Ostrom, 2 vols (New York, 1966), vol.
I
, p. 185.

11
Nelson Sizer,
Forty Years in Phrenology: Embracing Recollections of History, Anecdote, and Experience
(New York, 1888), p. 181; Nelson Sizer,
How to Study Strangers by Temperament, Face and Head
(New York, 1895), p. 83.

12
[Thomas Dunn English,] ‘Notes about Men of Note’,
Aristidean
,
I
(1845), p. 153.

13
Kevin J. Hayes, ‘Poe, the Daguerreotype, and the Autobiographical Act’,
Biography
, xxv (2002), pp. 477–92.

14
Sammuel R. Wells,
New Physiognomy: or, Signs of Characters, as Manifested through Temperament and External Forms
(New York, 1871), p. 527.

15
Walter Benjamin,
The Arcades Project
, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge,
MA
, 1999), p. 9.

16
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
II
, pp. 500–1.

17
Hayes, ‘The Flaneur in the Parlor’, pp. 104, 116.

18
Kevin J. Hayes, ‘Visual Culture and the Word in “The Man of the Crowd”’,
Nineteenth-Century Literature
,
LVI
(2002), pp. 445–65.

19
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
II
, p. 511.

20
Marie Bonaparte,
The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation
, trans. John Rodker (London, 1949).

21
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
II
, p. 515.

22
William G. Shade, ‘Biddle, Nicholas’,
American National Biography
, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols (New York, 1999), vol.
II
, p. 736.

23
Poe,
Essays
, p. 1146.

24
Poe to Charles W. Thomson, 28 June 1840, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 140.

25
Poe to Nicholas Biddle, 6 January 1841, in
Letters
, vol.
II
, p. 694.

26
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, pp. 318–19.

27
Ibid., p. 320.

28
Poe,
Essays
, p. 146.

29
Ibid., p. 148.

30
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
II
, p. 548.

31
Guy Debord,
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
, trans. Malcolm Imrie (London, 1990), pp. 70–71.

32
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
III
, p. 979.

1
James Buzard,
The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800–1918
(Oxford, 1993), p. 1.

2
Edgar Allan Poe,
Essays and Reviews
, ed. G. R. Thompson (New York, 1984), p. 1208.

3
‘Trip to Niagara Falls’,
Cincinnati Mirror
, 3 September 1836, p. 254.

4
Edgar Allan Poe,
Collected Works
, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 vols (Cambridge,
MA
, 1969–78), vol.
III
, p. 862.

5
Ibid., vol.
II
, p. 583.

6
Ibid., vol.
II
, p. 578.

7
Ibid.

8
John Urry,
The Tourist Gaze
, 2nd edn (London, 2002), pp. 3–4.

9
‘Tourists in the Pyrenees’,
Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
,
XXIII
(1838), p. 469.

10
Kevin J. Hayes, ‘Baedeker Guides’, in
Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia
, ed. Jennifer Speake, 3 vols (London, 2003), vol.
I
, p. 58.

11
Poe to Frederick W. Thomas, 25 May 1842, Edgar Allan Poe,
Letters
, ed. John Ward Ostrom, 2 vols (New York, 1966), vol.
I
, p. 197.

12
Edgar A. Poe, ‘Eleonora: A Fable’,
Great Western Magazine and Anglo-American Journal
,
I
(1842), pp. 43–6.

13
Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson,
The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849
(Boston,
MA
, 1987), p. 325.

14
Ibid., p. 370.

15
Ibid., pp. 355, 371.

16
Joel Benton,
In the Poe Circle: With Some Account of the Poe–Chivers Controversy, and Other Poe Memorabilia
(New York, 1899), pp. 58–9.

17
Henry Howard Paul,
Dashes of American Humour
(London, 1852), p. 136; Charles Fenno Hoffman, ‘The Origin of Mint Juleps’, in
The Poets and Poetry of America
, ed. Rufus Wilmot Griswold (Philadelphia,
PA
, 1856), p. 336.

18
Paul,
Dashes of American Humour
, p. 137.

19
Poe to J. and H. G. Langley, 19 July 1842,
Letters
, vol.
II
, p. 699.

20
Augustus Van Cleef, ‘Poe’s Mary’,
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
,
LXXVIII
(1889), p. 639.

21
American Book-Prices Current: A Record of Books, Manuscripts and Autographs Sold at Auction in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, from September, 1919, to July, 1920
(New York, 1920), p. 661, lists a copy of Harding’s
Principles and Practice of Art
with Poe’s presentation inscription.

22
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
III
, p. 1281.

23
Miles Orvell, ‘Virtual Culture and the Logic of American Technology’,
Revue Française d’Études Américaines
,
LXXVI
(1998), p. 15.

24
Richard Burgin, ed.,
Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
(Jackson,
MS
, 1998), p. 196.

25
Edgar Allan Poe,
Essays and Reviews
, ed. G. R. Thompson (New York, 1984), p. 556.

26
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 380.

27
Quoted by Mary E. Phillips,
Edgar Allan Poe: The Man
, 2 vols (Chicago,
IL
, 1926), vol.
I
, p. 749.

28
‘Editors’ Book Table’,
Godey’s Lady’s Book
, xxv (1842), p. 250.

29
F. W. Thomas to Poe, 7 March 1841, in Poe,
Complete Works
, vol.
XVII
, p. 81.

30
Poe to F. W. Thomas and Jesse E. Dow, 16 March 1843, in
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 229.

31
John Hill Hewitt,
Recollections of Poe
, ed. Richard Barksdale Harwell (Atlanta,
GA
, 1949), p. 19.

32
‘Chronique et Variétés’,
Le Bibliophile Belge
,
III
(1846), p. 144.

33
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
III
, p. 862.

34
Edgar A. Poe, ‘Morning on the Wissahiccon’, in
The Opal
, ed. N. P. Willis (New York, 1844), p. 250.

35
Thomas Holley Chivers,
Life of Poe
, ed. Richard Beale Davis (New York, 1952), p. 43.

36
Poe to Maria Clemm, 7 April 1844,
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 252.

37
Edgar Allan Poe,
Doings of Gotham
, ed. Jacob E. Spannuth and Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Pottsville,
PA
, 1929), p. 31.

38
Ibid., p. 25.

39
Ibid., pp. 40–41.

1
Poe to F. W. Thomas, 8 September 1844, in Edgar Allan Poe,
Letters
, ed. John Ward Ostrom, 2 vols (New York, 1966), vol.
I
, p. 708.

2
William F. Gill,
The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
, 3rd edn (London, 1878), p. 149.

3
Poe to James R. Lowell, 28 May 1844,
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 253.

4
‘Editors’ Table’,
Ladies’ Companion
, December 1843, p. 104.