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Articles and Essays, 1827-1850



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Broadly stated, copyright regulations allow for most material printed before 1923 to be in the public domain. Anyone seeking to use this material should consult the appropriate copyright laws, as suitable. The principles of fair use generally allow for references and judicious quotation (properly credited), particularly for scholarly articles, student papers, and other educational purposes.

It should be noted that information and views expressed in these articles and essays reflect the research and opinions of the authors.

Items here are generally listed chronologically, although some sequences of closely related subjects are grouped together. Reprinted items are listed under the earliest date of publication.


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~~ 1827-1829 ~~

 


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~~ 1830-1839 ~~

 


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~~ 1840-1849 ~~

 


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~~ 1850 ~~

  • “[Reviews of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe]
  • “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
  • “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)
  • “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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