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Israfel

The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe

By
Hervey Allen

In Two Volumes
Volume I

George H. Doran Logo

New York
George H. Doran Company
1926

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PREFACE			[[vii]]
Chapter	I	A DRAMATIC PROLOGUE	3
	II	THE TWO ORPHANS	17
	III	LADY BOUNTIFUL CLAIMS ISRAFEL	27
	IV	“THE LITTLE ANGEL” TRIES HIS WINGS	50
	V	ISRAFEL IN ALBION	63
	VI	ISRAFEL MEETS HELEN	90
	VII	ISRAFEL SALUTES THE MARQUIS	112
	VIII	ELMIRA AND THE ENCHANTED GARDEN	132
	IX	ISRAFEL IN CAP AND GOWN	147
	X	ALIAS HENRI LE RENNÉT	181
	XI	ISRAFEL IN CAROLINA	209
	XII	COLD MARBLE	227
	XIII	THE WEST POINT INTERLUDE	269
	XIV	THE WEARY, WAYWORN WANDERER	301
	XV	“THE MYSTERIOUS YEARS”	319
	XVI	BOTTLED FAME	344
	XVII	VALLEY OF THE MANY-COLORED GLASS	375

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Illustrations

Illustrations to Volume I

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Edgar Allan Poe as a Young Man				Frontispiece
Poe's Own Comment on His Childhood [[MS for “Alone”]]				vi
Mrs. David Poe [[Mrs. David Poe, Jr., ie Eliza Arnold Poe]]				14
The House in which Mrs. David Poe [[Jr.]] died in Richmond, Virginia				15
Frances Keeling Allan				20
The Richmond of Poe's Early Childhood				21
John Allan, Merchant				29
An Off-Hour at Ellis & Allan				33
William Mayo				37
The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia				44
The Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia				44
The Right Reverend Richard Channing Moore				55
The Grammar School at Irvine, Scotland				79
The Manor House at Stoke Newington, London				79
The Home of Charles Ellis, partner of John Allan				92
“The Mother's Chamber” in the Ellis House				92
A Poem by Edgar Poe [[Actually a copy Poe wrote out of a poem from George Barnwell by T. S. Surr]]				93
The House of Poe's “Helen”, Jane Stith Standard				106
Bill of J. W. Clarke				111
The Earliest Known Lines of Poetry and Signature of Edgar A. Poe				124
The Allan House, “Moldavia”				128
John Allan				129
Sarah Elmira Royster at Fifteen				144
“A Fountain and a Shrine”				145
The University of Virginia in Poe's Day				148
Professor George Tucker				149
No. 13, West Range				152
Bill for a Suit of Clothes				153
Title Page of Tamerlane and Other Poems				200
The Front and Back Wrappers of Tamerlane and Other Poems				201
Poe's Gold Bug Synthesis				216
Original Illustrations for The Gold Bug				217
Baltimore, about the time of Poe's First Story				248
Scenes in Early Baltimore familiar to Poe				249
Title Page of Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, Baltimore 1829				258
The United States Military Academy				270
An Early Steamboat on the New York to Albany Route in the days of Poe				297
Title Page of Poems — Second Edition				306
On the Philadelphia Trenton Line				316
Philadelphia from the Navy Yard				316
Baltimore in the Early 1830's				317
Part of a page on which Poe's Prize Story of “The MS. Found in a Bottle” appeared				346
Street Scene in Baltimore of the 1830's				347
John P. Kennedy				352
T. S. Arthur, Author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room				353
The Southern Literary Messenger Building				378
“Sunday Evenings at the Yarringtons”				379

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Notes:

The text for this electronic version of the book was taken from an original printed form, revised for XHTML/CSS and to follow our own formatting preferences. Pagination of the original edition has been included.

The table of contents is a reasonable representation of the table of contents from the original printing.

In a letter dated April 30, 1946, Hervey Allen wrote to Mrs. Otto Madlener, of Chicago, Illinois: “I should tell you that the first edition of ISRAFEL was a tragedy so far as the printing went. It was a mass of mistakes as it was hurried through the printer's hands for Christmas publication before I could finish the proof reading.” Mrs. Madlener was Elaine Madlener (1912-1989), a philanthropist and collector of manuscripts and autographs. (The letter was listed with a copy of Poe's Brother on eBay on December 1, 2020.)

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Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, (1926), volume I, title page and table of contents

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Table of Contents

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