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John Hill Hewitt

Wrote an severe criticism of Poe's Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1829).
 

Bibliography:

• Harwell, Richard Barksdale, "Introduction," Recollections of Poe, by John Hilll Hewitt, Atlanta, Georgia: Emory University Publications - Sources & Reprints, Series V, 1949, pp. 5-16.

• Hewitt, John Hill, "[Review of] Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems," The Baltimore Minerva and Emerald,  (Reprinted in Richard Barksdale Harwell, ed., Recollections of Poe, by John Hilll Hewitt, Atlanta, Georgia: Emory University Publications - Sources & Reprints, Series V, 1949, pp. 22 - 24 and Ian Walker, ed., Edgar Allan Poe: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986, pp. 72- 74.)

• Hewitt, John Hill, "Edgar Allan Poe," Shadows on the Wall, or Glimpses of the Past: A Retrospective of the Past Fifty Years, Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1877,   pp. 154-156 (This item was originally printed in the Baltimore Sunday Telegram earlier in the 1870s. The comments on Poe Hewitt gives here are rather brief and surprisingly free of resentment or anger.) (Also in this book is reprinted Hewitt's rather poor poem "At the Grave of Edgar A. Poe," pp. 240-241, including the truly tasteless line "Like salted fish, he shines when he is rotten.")

• Hewitt, John Hill, "Edgar Allan Poe," [an unpublished manuscript from September of 1886],  (Reprinted in Richard Barksdale Harwell, ed., Recollections of Poe, by John Hilll Hewitt, Atlanta, Georgia: Emory University Publications - Sources & Reprints, Series V, 1949, pp. 17 - 21)

• Starrett, Vincent, "One Who Knew Poe," The Bookman, LXVI, October, 1827, pp. 196-201. (Also published as a pamphlet by John S. Mayfield, October 1927.)