Text: Anonymous, “[Review of The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe],” Ladies’ Repository (Boston, MA), vol. 24, no. 10, April 1856, p. 398

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The Works of the late Edgar Allan Poe. With a Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Volume IV. New York: Redfield. 1856.

This publication makes entire Redfield's issue of the works of one of the most extraordinary geniuses this country has ever produced. This volume gives [column 2:] several of the most popular and meritorious of the author's prose compositions — a department in which his faculties show with a lustre all their own. There is much in Poe's history to forgive, much to pity. His case is a remarkable illustration of “the infirmities of genius.”