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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 14: Poe (search)
these years was his income from his writings or from his editorial labours sufficient to enable him to live in comfort. During his later years in Philadelphia, moreover, his weakness for drink had grown on him, and he had as a result lost many of his friends; his wife, too, frail from childhood, had become an invalid in 1841 or in 1842; and so, early in 1844, the poet concluded to seek a new field. In April, 1844, he moved with his family to New York; and there, either in the city or at Fordham, a few miles out, he lived during the remaining five years allotted to him. The year 1844 was uneventful, but the year 1845 proved to be the pivotal year of his history. At the end of January appeared in the New York Evening Mirror, on which he had held a minor editorial position for several months, The Raven; and he became at once the most talked of man of letters in America. In the summer he published a new volume of his tales, and in the fall, a collected edition of his poems, The Rave
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
n, 115 Pioneer, the, 165, 246 Pioneer times in California, 363 n. Pitkin, Timothy, 108, 111 Pitt, William, 93, 96 Place of Judge story in the making of American law, the, 77 n. Plain and pleasant talk about fruit, flowers and farming, 215 Plato, 197, 211, 213 Plebeian, 264 n. Plu-Ri-Bus Tah, 156 Poe, Edgar Allan, 37, 55-69, 165, 168, 173, 174, 225, 239, 245, 249, 289, 290, 327, 351, 358, 362, 369, 370, 373, 374, 375, 378, 380, 383, 384, 387, 388 Poe's cottage at Fordham, 330 Poems (Brownell), 277 Poems and ballads upon important episodes in American history, 409 Poems by two brothers, 44 Poems by Victor and Cazire, 44 Poems by Walt Whitman, 271 Poems of Adrian, the, 45 Poems of American history, 304 Poems of places, 35 Poems of the War, 278 Poems on slavery, 36 Poet at the Breakfast-Table, The, 234 Poetic principle, 63 Poetry, lyrical, narrative, and satirical of the Civil War, 299 Poets and poetry of Europe, 35 Politian