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  • [Reviews of the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (see also 1839, above)]
  • [Reviews of the Burton's Gentlmen's Magazine]
  • [Reviews of the Graham's Magazine]
  • “The Perioical Press” by Anonymous — Southern Quarterly Review (Columbia, SC), vol. I, no. 1, January 1842 (the portion dealing with the Southern Literary Messenger, with a brief mention of Poe during his tenure)
  • “[Review of The Poets and Poetry of America]” by Ephraim George Squire, Poet's Magazine (Albany, NY), vol. I, no. 2, June 1842, monthly supplement, pp. ii-iii (this review includes a very harsh statement against Poe as a poet)
  • “[Comment on Edgar A. Poe]” by Park Benjamin, New World (New York, NY), vol. IV, no. 23, June 4, 1842, p. 367, col. 3
  • “[Review of The Gift for 1843]” by Anonymous, Charleston Courier (Charleston, SC), October 4, 1842
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Rufus W. Griswold, brief introductory notice to The Poets and Poetry of America
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (1842) The Poets and Poetry of America (1st edition)
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (1847) The Poets and Poetry of America (8th edition)
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (1850) The Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition)
    • “Edgar Allan Poe” (1855) The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition)
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by Henry Beck Hirst, Saturday Museum (Philadelphia)
    • “Edgar Allan Poe” (February 25, 1843) (this version does not survive as a full issue. See notes on the article for an more complete explanation.)
    • “Edgar Allan Poe” (March 4, 1843) (this version mostly matches the earlier form, but with one additional block of text, one additonal poem, and several minor changes in text. See notes on the article for an more complete explanation.)
  • [Notice of “Notes Upon English Verse”], by Anonymous, Boston Post (Boston, MA), March 6, 1843
  • “[Review of The Gift for 1843], by Anonymous, Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review (London, UK), April 1843
  • “Editor's Table” by Lewis Gaylord Clark, Knickerbocker Magazine (New York, NY), July 1843 (This portion of the “Editor's Table” includes makes some comment about Poe)
  • [Reviews of Poe's Prose Romances]
  • “American Biography: Edgar Allan Poe” by Joseph E. Snodgrass, Baltimore Saturday Visiter, July 29, 1843.
  • “Editor's Table” by Lewis Gaylord Clark, Knickerbocker Magazine (New York, NY), October 1843 (This portion of the “Editor's Table” includes makes some comment about Poe)
  • “Mr. Poe's Lecture” by Anonymous, Philadelphia Saturday Museum, November 25, 1843
  • “Mr. Poe's Lecture” by George Lippard, Citizen Soldier, November 29, 1843
  • “[Review of The Poets and Poetry of America, etc.]” by John Forster (?), Foreign Quarterly Review (American edition), vol. 32, whole no. 64, January 1844, pp. 159-176 (there is only a minor mention of Poe, but that article is important in understanding the European view of poetry in America, and Poe was familiar with the article.)
  • “[Review of Poe's Lecture]”
  • “The Ghost of a Grey Tadpole” a parody with Poe's name, but actually by Thomas Dunn English, Republican and Daily Argus (Baltimore, MD), February 1, 1844
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by James Russell Lowell
    • “Our Contributors — Edgar Allan Poe”  (February 1845, Graham's Magazine)
    • Edgar A. Poe
      • Part I (January 20, 1845, Evening Mirror (New York))
      • Part II (January 21, 1845, Evening Mirror (New York))
    • “Edgar A. Poe”  (February 1, 1845, New-York Weekly Tribune)   (excerpts of the article, with Poe's poems “To Helen” and “The Haunted Palace.” The short introduction reads: “This number of Graham's Magazine has a likeness of EDGAR A. POE, with a critique upon that critic and a brief outline of his career thus far, by James Russell Lowell. [/] This article is frank, earnest, and contains many just thoughts, expressed with force and point. We quote the following ...”)
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (1847) (a copy of the Graham's article, with two minor corrections by Lowell, signed and dated, possibly for use in Poe's proposed book on “Literary America.”)
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, 1850)
  • “Premature Burials” by Anonymous, New England Farmer and Horticultural Register (January 22, 1845) (the same article was reprinted in the Rockford Forum (Rockford, IL) for January 29, 1845, vol. II, no. 49, p. 1, col. 3; Pittsfield Sun (Pittsfield, MA), vol. XLV, no. 2325, January 30, 1845, p. 1, col. 5; the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), vol. IV, no. 6, February 5, 1845, p. 1, col. 1; Republican Banner (Nashville, TN), vol. XXXIII, no. 17, February 7, 1845, p. 1, col. 5; Cecil Whig (Elkton, MD), vol. 4, no. 29, p. 1, col 3; Democratic Press (York, PA), vol. VII, no. 40, March 28, 1845, p. 1, col. 3; Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, UK), vol. XXII, no. 1145, July 19, 1845, p. 7, col. 1; and the South Australian Register (Adelaide), vol. VIII, no. 590, December 27, 1845, p. 4, col. 2, and others)
  • “[Review of the American Review for February 1845]” by Charles Frederick Briggs — Broadway Journal (New York, NY), vol. I, no. 6, February 8, 1845, pp. 93-94
  • “[Notice on Poe's Lecture on the Poets and Poetry of America]” by Anonymous — New York Tribune (New York, NY), vol. IV, no. 278, February 27, 1845, p. 2, col. 2
  • “[Notice of Poe's Lecture on the Poets and Poetry of America]” by N. P. Willis, Evening Mirror, February 27, 1845
  • “[Review of the American Review for February 1845]” by Lewis Gaylord Clark — Knickerbocker (New York, NY), vol. XXV, no. 3, March 1845, p. 282
  • “[Review of Poe's Lecture on the Poets and Poetry of America]” by Horace Greeley (???) New-York Daily Tribune, March 1, 1845
  • “[Review of Poe's lecture on the] Poets and Poetry of America” by N. P. Willis, Evening Mirror, March 1, 1845
  • “Plagiarism” by Outis New-York Evening Mirror, March 1, 1845
  • “[Review of Poe's Lecture on Poets and Poetry of America”] by Anonymous, New York Herald, March 2, 1845
  • “Plagiarism” by Anonymous, Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), vol. IX, no. 51, March 25, 1845, p. 4, col. 1
  • “[Comment on Review of Eothen in the Broadway Journal]” by Anonymous, Charleston Courier (Charleston, SC), vol. XLIII, whole no. 12,942, March 28, 1845, p. 2, col. 2 (a comment about Poe ending his series attacking Longfellow)
  • “Mr. Poe on the Poets” by Anonymous, Evening Post (New York, NY), vol. XLIII, April 18, 1845, p. 2, col. 2 (mostly a comment on the brief statement in the New York Express)
  • “Criticism on Poe's Raven” by Anonymous, New-York Evening Mirror, April 19, 1845 (reprinted in the Weekly Mirror, April 26, 1845, pp. 42-43)
  • “Notes about Men of Note” by Thomas Dunn English, Aristidean (New York, NY), April 1845
  • [Reviews of Poe's Tales]
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Sarah J. Hale, Godey's Lady's Book, June 1845, pp. 570-571
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Lawrence Labree, Rover, June 28, 1845
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, National Magazine and Industrial Record, July 1845, p. 194
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, New York Weekly News (New York, NY), July 5, 1845, p. 2, col. 3
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, New-Haven Daily Herald (New Haven, CT), July 5, 1845, p. 3, col. 1 (a very short notice)
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Charles Gordon Greene (???), Boston Post (Boston, MA), vol. XXVII, no. 6, July 8, 1845, p. 1, col. 5
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, New York Evening Post (New York, NY), vol. XLIII, July 9, 1845, p. 2, col. 3
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Margaret Fuller, New York Daily Tribune, July 11, 1845
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Charles Anderson Dana, Harbinger (New York, NY), July 12, 1845
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Henry C. Whitaker, Providence Daily Journal (Providence, RI), vol. XIV, no. 167, July 15, 1845, p. 2, col. 2
    • “Review of Poe's Tales” by Anonymous, Times and Compiler (Richmond, VA), vol. 67, no. 25, July 30, 1845, p. 2, col. 4
    • “[Review excerpts of Poe's Tales]” by Various, Wiley & Putnam's Literary News-Letter (New York, NY), vol. IV, no. 45, August 1845, p. 353, col. 1
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, Spectator (London, UK), August 2, 1845 (a very brief review)
    • “[Comment on Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), August 2, 1845, p. 2, col. 1 (a very brief comment in a notice of Wiley & Putnam's Library of Choice Reading.)
    • “[Comment on Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, New-Orleans Bee (New Orleans, LA), August 2, 1845, p. 2, col. 3 (a very brief comment in a notice of Wiley & Putnam's Library of Choice Reading.)
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by William Jerdan (?), Literary Gazette, August 9, 1845 (a very brief review)
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, Atlas (London, UK), August 9, 1845 (a brief review, primarily quoting from “A Descent into the Maesltrom”)
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Freeman Hunt, Hunt's Merchants' Magazne and Commercial Review, August 1845, 13:205
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, The Critic (London, UK), September 6 and 20, 1845, pp. 378-380 and 420-422 (reprinted in the New York Evening Mirror for November 25, 1845 and the Weekly Mirror for December 6, 1845)
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, September 9, 1845, p. 612
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by George H. Colton, American Review, September 1845
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, Graham's Magazine, September 1845
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales” by Anonymous, Biblical Repository, series 3, no. 4, October 1845, pp. 775-776
    • “[Comment on Poe's Tales” by Anonymous, Daily Picaynune (New Orleans, LA), vol. IX, no. 195, September 12, 1845, p. 2, col. 1
    • “[Comment on Poe's Tales]” by Anonymous, Wiley & Putnam's Literary News-Letter (New York, NY), vol. IV, no. 47, October 1845, p. 366, col. 2
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales” by Edgar Allan Poe (anonymously), Aristidean, October 1845
    • “[Notice of Poe's Tales” by William Gilmore Simms, Southern and Western Magazine, December 1845
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales” by Anonymous, Literary Annual Register and Catalogue Raison of New Publications, London: E. Churton, 1845
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales]” by Martin Farquhar Tupper, Literary Gazette, January 31, 1846 (a more extended review, with substantial extracts)
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales],” by William Henry Smith, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (Edinburgh), November 1847 (the portion about Poe's Tales is included in a review of the American Library)
    • “[Review of Poe's Tales],” by E. D. Forgues, La Revue des deux mondes (Paris, France), October 13, 1846 (an English translation of the article originally written and published in French)
  • “Wiley & Putnam's Library” by Anonymous, Weekly Mirror (New York, NY), April 26, 1845, p. 38, col. 2 (a review of the series, with a passing reference to Poe's tales)
  • “Poems by W. W. Lord” by Anonymous, Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), June 4, 1845, p. 2, col. 2 (includes a comment about Poe's harsh review in the Broadway Journal)
  • “[Comment on review of “Leonora” in Broadway Journal” by “Timon,” Pennsylvania Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA), vol. 14, no. 67, June 25, 1845, p. 2, col. 6 (this item comments unfavorably on the negative review, erroneousely assumed to be by Poe, of the opera “Leonora.”)
  • “[Comment on Poe's Broadway Journal” by Anonymous, Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), vol. XV, no. 196, July 15, 1845, p. 2, col. 2 (this item is a premature pronouncment that the Broadway Journal has died)
  • “The Intellectual History, Condition, and Prospects of the Country” by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC), August 30, 1845, p. 2, cols. 1-2
  • “[Comment on William Wallace” by John Jenkins, Vicksburg Tri-Weekly Sentinel (Vicksburg, Mississippi), vol. 8, no. 128, August 4, 1845, p. 3, col. 2
  • “[Comment on Poe's Lecture at the Boston Lyceum” by Anonymous, The Democrat (Bangor, ME), vol. 8, no. 35, September 30, 1845, p. 2, col. 3
  • “Literary: ‘Old Kit’ and James Russell Lowell” by Lawrence Labree, Illustrated Magazine of Literature and Art, October 11, 1845
  • “A Failure” by Cornelia Wells Walter, Daily Evening Transcript, October 17, 1845 (this item is a comment on Poe's performance at the Boston Lyceum)
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by “*P*,” Daily Evening Transcript, October 18, 1845 (this item is a comment on Poe's performance at the Boston Lyceum)
  • “Mr. Poe's Poem” by Anonymous, Boston Courier (Boston, MA), October 18, 1845 (this item is a comment on Poe's performance at the Boston Lyceum)
  • “Comment on Willis about ‘The Gold Bug’” by Anonymous — Republican Banner (Nashville, TN), vol. XXXII, no. 126, October 24, 1845
  • “Mr. Poe's Poem” by Anonymous — Sunday Times and Messenger (New York, NY), October 26, 1845 (another comment on Poe's lecture at the Boston Lyceum)
  • “Quizzing the Bostonians” by Cornelia Wells Walter, Daily Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), October 30, 1845 (this item is another comment on Poe's performance at the Boston Lyceum)
  • “[Comment on Poe's Boston Lyceum Lecture” by Anonymous, Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), vol. XV, no. 284, November 6, 1845, p. 2, col. 2 (this item is another comment on Poe's performance at the Boston Lyceum)
  • [Reviews of Poe's The Raven and Other Poems]
  • “[Poe' Poetry]” by William Gilmore Simms, Southern Patriot (Charleston, SC), November 10, 1845, vol. III, no. 30, p. 2, cols. 2-3 (A comment about Poe's presentation at the Boston Lyceum.)
  • “[Comment on Poe's Boston Lyceum Lecture” by Anonymous, Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), vol. XVI, no. 11, December 5, 1845, p. 2, col. 2 (this item is another comment on Poe's performance at the Boston Lyceum)
  • “From Our Correspondent” by Anonymous, Democratic Union (Harrisburg, PA), December 24, 1845, vol. III, no. 30, p. 5 (A comment about Poe's story of “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.”)
  • “Something Disgraceful” by William Mosley Swain, Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), January 9, 1846, vol. XX, no. 91, p. 2 (A comment about Poe's story of “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” as printed in the Broadway Journal)
  • “Letter from the North — Letter XVIII” by T. L. C, Times and Compiler (Richmond, VA), vol. 68, no. 8, January 14, 1846, p. 2, col. 5 (includes a comment on Poe and the Broadway Journal)
  • “[Comment on Poe's performance at the Boston Lyceum” by Charles Gordon Green (???), Boston Post (Boston, MA), vol. XXVII, no. 12, January 14, 1846, p. 1, col. 6
  • “Hypercriticism” by Anonymous, Alexandria Gazette, January 26, 1846, vol. 47, no. 22, p. 1, col. 5 (reprinted from the Hartford Review)
  • “Plagiarisms, &c” by Anonymous, Saturday Evening Post, March 14, 1846
  • “[Notice of Godey's Lady's Book for April 1846]” by Anonymous, Evening Mirror (New York, NY), March 28, 1846
  • “Indecent Self-Exposure” by Anonymous, Morning Express (Buffalo, NY), vol. I, no. 79, April 16, 1846, p. 2, col. 2 (comment on “Marginalia” entry about Carlyle)
  • The Evening Mirror and T. D. English's Literati War
  • [Comment on Poe's Literati of New York City], by Anonymous, Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), July 15, 1846
  • “From Our Correspondent” by William Gilmore Simms, Southern Patriot (Charleston, SC), July 20, 1846 (This letter to the newspaper includes a comment about Poe, among others)
  • “Our Classic Niche: Edgar A. Poe, Esq” by Anonymous, Saturday Courier (Philadelphia, PA), July 25, 1846, pp. 1-2 (essentially a reprint of “The Raven” with a brief introductory note with minor biographical information)
  • “Editor's Table” by Lewis Gaylord Clark — Knickerbocker (New York, NY), vol. XXVIII, no. 4, October 1846, pp. 368-369 (a very nasty attack on Poe, withouth naming him.)
  • “Hospital for Disabled Labourers with the Brain” by N. P. Willis, Home Journal (New York, NY), December 26, 1846, series for 1846, no. 52, p. 2, col. 4
  • “Mr. Poe” by N. P. Willis, Home Journal (New York, NY), January 9, 1847
  • “An Author in Europe and America” by Evert A. Duyckinck, Home Journal (New York, NY), January 9, 1847, series for 1847, no. 2, p. 2. col 5
  • “Editorial Delicacy” by Anonymous, Yankee Doodle (New York, NY), January 16, 1847, vol. I, no. 3, p. 172, col. 2 (a veiled comment to Poe in a weekly satirical periodical)
  • “Edgar A. Poe and the Parisian Feuilletonists” by Anonymous, Home Journal (New York, NY), January 30, 1847
  • “What is a National Literature Worth?” by Anonymous — New York Illustrated Magazine (New York, NY), vol. III, nos. 2-3, February 1847, pp. 93-94
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Rufus W. Griswold, brief introductory notice to The Prose Writers of America
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (1847) The Prose Writers of America (1st edition, issued March 3, 1847)
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (1851) The Prose Writers of America (4th edition, issued May-June, 1851)
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Phillip Pendleton Cooke (Southern Literary Messenger, Jan. 1848)
  • “[Review of the Southern Literary Messenger for January 1848]” by Anonymous, Vicksburg Whig, January 19, 1848
  • “Poe's Last Poem” [Review of “Ulalume”] by Henry Beck Hirst (???), Philadelphia Saturday Courier, January 22, 1848
  • Reports on Poe's lecture on “The Universe”
  • “To the Author of ‘The Raven’,” by Miss Harriet B. Winslow Graham's Magazine, April 1848 (a poem)
  • “Hints for Authors” by Thomas Dunn English, John-Donkey (New York, NY), June 1, 1848 (with the satirical “A Tale of Tadpole”)
  • “[Notice of The Moral for Authors” by Anonymous, Daily Morning Post (Pittsburgh, PA), June 18, 1848
  • [Reviews of Poe's Eureka)]
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous (New York Morning Express (New York, NY), July 12, 1848)
    • “[Notice of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, New-York Commercial Advertiser, vol. LI, July 12, 1848, p. 2, col. 1
    • “[Notice of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, New York Journal of Commerce (NBew York, NY), vol. XXXVII, whole no. 7348, July 14, 1848, p. 2, col. 2
    • “[Notice of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, Evening Post (New York, NY), July 15, 1848
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, Albion (Albion, NY), July 15, 1848
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Epes Sargent (?), Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), July 20, 1848, p. 2, cols. 1-2
    • “[Notice of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, Buffalo Courier (Buffalo, NY), July 24, 1848
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka” by John H. Hopkins (?), Literary World (New York, NY), July 29, 1848, p. 502, cols. 1-3
    • “[Notice of Poe's Eureka” by Anonymous, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat (Brooklyn, NY), July 31, 1848, p. 2, col. 4
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous (New Church Repository and Monthly Review (New York, NY), August 1848)
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous (Daily Tribune (New York, NY), August 3, 1848)
    • “Mr. Poe's Eureka” by N. P. Willis (?) (Home Journal (New York), August 12, 1848)
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule, and Odd Fellows's Family Companion (New York, NY), August 26, 1848)
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Freeman Hunt, Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, August 1848, 19:237
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol. XXIII, whole no. 122, August 1848, p. 192
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by Anonymous, Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic (Cheltenham, UK), October 5, 1848
    • “[Comment on Poe's Eureka]” by William Jerdan (?), Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres (London, UK), September 30, 1848, p. 652, col. 3
    • “[Review of Poe's Eureka]” by John Milton Emerson, The Indicator (Amherst College), February 1849
  • “Fugitive Poetry of America” by A. S. P., Southern Quarterly Review, July 1848, p. 101-131 (a long article, of which Poe is only a small part)
  • “Sketches of Living Poets — Edgar A. Poe” by James E. Carnes, Vicksurg Tri-Weekly Whig (Vicksburg, Mississippi), vol. X, no. 128, August 5, 1848, p. 1, col. 6 (a very unfavorable evaluation of Poe as a poet)
  • “Literary and Political Police” by George Lippard, Quaker City, December 30, 1848
  • “Mr. Poe's Lecture [on the ‘Poetic Principle’]” by Anonymous, Daily Richmond Times (Richmond, VA), vol. 74, no. 194, August 17, 1849, p. 2, col. 4
  • “Mr. Poe's Lecture,” Norfolk Beacon (Norfold, VA), September 17, 1849
  • “[Mr. Poe's Lecture]” by John M. Daniel (Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner (Richmond, VA), September 25, 1849)
  • [Poe's Swimming]
    • “A Swimming Poet” by Anonymous, Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), vol. XX, whole no. 5887, September 29, 1849, p. 1, col. 6 (this item was reprinted in the Litchfield Enquirer (Litchfield, CN), vol. XXIV, no. 21, October 11, 1849, p. 2, 5 (without title, and with a brief comment in the same column that Poe has died); and the Southern Recorder (Grove Hill, AL), vol. 8, no. 41, November 7, 1849, p. 1, col. 5)
    • “Good Swimmer” by Anonymous, Buffalo Morning Express (Buffalo, NY), vol. IV, whole no. 1159, October 10, 1849, p. 2, col. 2
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe,” Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), vol. XXV, no. 122, October 8, 1849, p. 2, col. 1
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe,” Baltimore Patriot and Commercial Gazette (Baltimore, MD), vol. 70, no. 83, October 8, 1849, p. 2, cols. 2-3
  • “[Notice of Poe's Death],” New York Herald (New York, NY), whole no. 5603, October 9, 1849, p. 4, cols. 1-2
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), vol. XXVII, no. 13, October 9, 1849, p. 2, col. 1 and p. 3, col. 6
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” by “Ludwig” (Rufus Wilmot Griswold)
    • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” (October 9, 1849, New York Daily Tribune)
    • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” (October 16, 1849, New York Daily Tribune, California edition)
    • “Edgar A. Poe” (October 10, 1849, New York Daily Tribune)
    • “Death of Edgar Allan Poe” (October 20, 1849, New York Weekly Tribune) (with some additional material omitted from the first edition but printed in the Tribune for October 10, 1849)
  • “[Obituary of Edgar A. Poe]” by Anonymous Semi-Weekly Union (Washington, DC), October 9, 1849 (A brief obituary, probably with information supplied by J. E. Snodgrass)
  • “[Notice of Poe's Death]” by Anonymous, Evening Post (New York, NY), October 9, 1849, vol. XLVII, p. 2, col. 4
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Anonymous, Daily Union (Washington, DC), October 9, 1849, p. 3, cols. 2 and 5
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Anonymous, Daily Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), October 9, 1849, p. 2, col. 3
  • “[Notice of Poe's Death]” by Anonymous, New York Journal of Commerce (New York, NY), October 9, 1849
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous, Daily Dispatch (Montgomery, AL), October 10, 1849, p. 1, col. 4
  • “[Obituary of Edgar A. Poe]” by John M. Daniel (Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner (Richmond, VA), October 12, 1849) (Although the obituary is unsigned, Daniel was the editor of the Examiner, and much of it is essentially recycled, along with the Examiner article of October 19, into the article printed under his name in the Southern Literary Messenger for March 1850)
  • “[Death of Edgar A. Poe]” by Samuel Bowles, Daily Republican (Springfield, MA), vol. 6, no. 241, October 12, 1849, p. 2, col. 2
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Anonymous, Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, VA), vol. XLVI, no. 47, October 12, 1849, p. 2, col. 2
  • “Death of a Poet” by Anonymous, New-York Organ (New York, NY), October 13, 1849), vol. 9, no. 16, p. 113 [Obituary of Edgar A. Poe]
  • “What is Talked About [Death of Poe]” by Anonymous, Literary World (New York, NY), October 13, 1849), p. 319
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Susan Archer Talley Weiss, Richmond Republican (Richmond, VA), October 15, 1849, vol. 7, no. 92, p. 2, cols. 2-3 [Obituary of Edgar A. Poe]
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by William D. Gallagher, Daily True Democrat (Cleveland, OH), October 16, 1849, vol. III, no. 242, p. 3, cols. 1-2 [Gallagher's obituary of Poe is copied from the Cleveland Gazette.]
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Carlos D. Stuart, New York Tribune (New York, NY), vol. IX, no. 162, p. 4, col. 1 (another elegiac poem)
  • “Characteristics of Edgar A. Poe” by John M. Daniel (Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner (Richmond, VA), October 19, 1849) (Although the article is unsigned, Daniel was the editor of the Examiner, and much of it is essentially recycled, along with the Examiner obituary of October 12, into the article printed under his name in the Southern Literary Messenger for March 1850)
  • “Death of Edgar Poe” by Nathaniel P. Willis
    • “Death of Edgar Poe” by Nathaniel P. Willis, Home Journal, October 20, 1849. (A. H. Quinn, 1941, p. 652, quotes the short note from the Home Journal for October 13, 1849: “Edgar Poe is no more. He died at Baltimore on Sunday last, in the fortieth year of his age. He was a man of genius and a poet of remarkable power. Peace to his manes.”)
    • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” (Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, 1850)
    • “Edgar Poe” (Hurry-Graphs; or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities, & Society, Taken from Life, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851)
  • “Memoir of Edgar A. Poe” by Henry Beck Hirst, M’Makin's Model American Courier (Philadelphia, PA), October 20, 1849
  • “[Edgar A. Poe]” by George Lippard, Quaker City (Philadelphia, PA), October 20, 1849, vol. 2, no. 5, p. 2, cols. 3-4
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Anonymous, Richards’ Weekly Gazette (Ahtens, GA), October 20, 1849
  • “Mr. Poe's Last Poem” by Charles J. Peterson, Mammoth Saturday Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), October 20, 1849, p. 2, col. 6
  • “Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Anonymous, Vicksburg Tri-Weekly Whig (Vicksburg, MS), October 20, 1849, p. 2, col. 2
  • “[Death of E. A. Poe]” by Anonymous (possibly the editor, James Clark), Huntingdon Journal (Huntington, PA), October 23, 1849
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Benjamin Lindsey, Jr., Daily Mercury (New Bedford, MA), October 20, 1849 (reprinted in the Weekly Mercury for October 26, 1849)
  • “Death of Poe” by E. H. N. Patterson, Oquawka Spectator (Oquawka, Illinois), October 24, 1849
  • “Miserrimus” by Richard H. Stoddard, Daily Tribune (New York, NY), October 27, 1849 (a poem)
  • “The Late Edgar A. Poe” by John R. Thompson (Southern Literary Messenger, November 1849)
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Anonymous — Green Mountain Gem (Bradford, VT), November 1849
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by John G. Whittier, National Era (Washington, DC), vol. III, no. 44, November 1, 1849, p. 2, col. 3
  • “The Misfortunes of Genius” by Anonymous, Wilimington Journal (Wilmington, NC), vol. 6, no. 8, November 2, 1849, p. 2, col. 3
  • “Literary Fame” by E. H. N. Patterson, Oquawka Spectator (Oquawka, Illinois), November 7, 1849
  • “The Late Edgar A. Poe” by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Literary American (New York, NY), November 10, 1849 (these few paragraphs reprinted in Griswold's memoir of Poe first published in 1850)
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous, Daily Tribune (New York, NY), November 13, 1849 (a poem)
  • “On the Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Sarah T. Bolton, Home Journal (New York), November 17, 1849 (a poem)
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous, New York Semi-Weekly Tribune (New York), November 17, 1849 (a poem)
  • “To the Memory of E. A. Poe” by M. B. D. — Oquwaka Spectator (Oquawka, IL), vol. 2, no. 42, November 21, 1849, p. 1, col. 2
  • “Obituary Notices” by Anonymous — American Quarterly Register and Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), vol. III, no. 2, December 1849, p. 493 (a very brief statement about Poe' death)
  • “Reminiscences of Edgar A. Poe” by Frances S. Osgood, Saroni's Musical Times (New York), December 8, 1849
  • “[Preview notice of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe]” by Charles F. Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine (New York), December 1849

 


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  • “[Reviews of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vols. 1-2]
  • “Death of Edgar Allen [[Allan]] Poe” by Anonymous — Oregon Spectator (Oregon Territory), February 7, 1850, vol. 4, no. 10, p. 1, col. 2
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by Henry Clay Preuss, Richmond Enquirer (Richmond VA), January 29, 1850 (the first version of this poem)
  • “Caelicola” by Thomas Holley Chivers, Peterson's Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), February 1850 (a poem)
  • “[[An]] Estimate of Edgar Poe” by Anonymous, Home Journal (New York, NY), February 2, 1850 (chiefly reprinting a letter from the Newark Daily Advertiser)
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by John M. Daniel, Southern Literary Messenger, March 1850
  • “The Late Edgar Allan Poe” by George Rex Graham
    • “The Late Edgar Allan Poe” by George Rex Graham, Graham's Magazine (March 1850)
    • “Graham's Estimate of Poe,” Boston Notion (May 4, 1850)  (reprinted from Graham's)
    • “[Introduction]” by George Rex Graham, Poems [by Edgar Allan Poe] (New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1850) (used along with Willis's article as a memoir)
  • “Estimates of Edgar A. Poe” by Nathaniel P. Willis and John R. Thompson, Home Journal (March 30, 1850)
  • “The New School of Poetry” by Anonymous, Literary Union (Syracuse, NY), vol. 1, no. 4, April 1850, pp. 181-195
  • “Cryptography — Mr. Poe as a Cryptographer” by Rev. Warren H. Cudworth, Lowell Weekly Journal (April 19, 1850)
  • “Edgar A. Poe” by John Neal, Portland Daily Advertiser (Portland, Maine), April 26, 1850
  • “John Neal and others vs. R. W. Griswold” by Horace Greeley, New York Tribune (New York, NY), vol. X, no. 20, May 2, 1850, p. 6, col. 3 (Greeley attempts to defend Griswold against some of the attacks on his obituary on Poe and editing of Poe's Works)
  • “American Poetry” by Anonymous, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (London, UK), July 1850 (a long and generally disparaging review of American poets, with a small portion specifially about Poe)
  • “The Valley of Diamonds, Part XVI” by Thomas Holley Chivers, Georgia Citizen (Macon, GA), July 12, 1850 (an early article in which Chivers claims that Poe stole the idea of “The Raven” from his own poem “To Allegra Florence in Heaven”)
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by Rufus Wilmot Griswold
    • “Edgar Allan Poe” by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (International Magazine, October 1850) (issued almost simultaneously with the “Memoir,” but lacking the “Preface” material.)
    • “Preface and Memoir” (Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, 1850)
  • “[Reviews of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: The Literati]
    • “[Review of Literati volume of Works]” by Henry Peterson, Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia, PA), vol. 30, whole no. 1521, September 21, 1850, p. 2, cols. 6-7 (a strong criticism of Griswold in his role as Poe's “Literary Exectuor”)
    • “[Review of Literati volume of Works]” by Anonymous, Providence Daily Journal (Providence, RI), vol. XXI, no. 234, September 25, 1850, p. 1, cols. 6-7 (largely excerpts from Griswold's “Memoir”)
    • “[Review of Literati volume of Works]” by Lewis Gaylord Clark, Knickerbocker Magazine (New York, NY), vol. XXXVI, no. 4, October 1850, pp. 370-372
    • “The Literati” by Anonymous, Public Ledger and Daily Transcript (Philadelphia, PA), September 16, 1850 (brief review of volume 3 of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, edited by R. W. Griswold)
    • “The Literati” by Anonymous, Oneida Morning Herald (Utica, NY), September 16, 1850 (brief review of volume 3 of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, edited by R. W. Griswold)
    • “[Review of The Literati]” by Evert A. Duyckinck, Literary World (New York, NY), September 21, 1850
    • “[Review of Literati” by Freeman Hunt, Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, September 1850, 23:363
    • “Poe's Works [volume 3]” by Anonymous, Daily Richmond Times (Richmond, VA), vol. 76, no. 80, October 4, 1850, p. 2, col. 6
    • “[Review of The Literati]” by Charles Jacobs Peterson, Peterson's Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), November 1850
    • “[Review of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe]” by Anonymous, Weekly North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, NC), May 14, 1851, vol. XVII, whole no. 867, p. 2, col. 6
  • “Poe, Longfellow and Peter Pindar” by Anonymous — Literary World (Boston, MA), vol. VII, whole no. 191, September 28, 1850, p. 247, cols. 1-3
  • “Editorial: To the Rev. Rufus Wilmot Griswold” by George Rex Graham
    • “Editorial: To the Rev. Rufus Wilmot Griswold” by George Rex Graham, Graham's Magazine (November 1850)
    • “Edgar Poe Again” by Mrs. M. Louise Crossley, Sunny South (Atlanta, GA) (vol. V, whole no. 215, August 23, 1879, p. 2, col. 5) (reprints Graham's letter in full, with a brief introduction)
  • “Edgar Allan Poe” by Thomas Powell, The Living Writers of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850

 


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