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This pamphlet was published only with the obvious pseudonym of Quarles Quickens, a play on the name of Charles Dickens, whose American Notes for General Circulation is the target of this minor satire. (By replacing the first letter of each part of Dickens's name with “Qu,” the author of the satire has created an alliterative name and an allusion to quarelling, that is, arguing in an angry fashion.)
The author was not Edgar Allan Poe. Instead, it was Nathaniel Wheeler Coffin (1815-1869), a minor poet who was associated with the Boston Daily Mail, which published the English Notes. As was noted by Mary E. Phillips and W. N. C. Carlton, both in 1926, there appeared in the Boston Daily Mail of January 11, 1843 a poem called “The Times,” with the byline that it was by “The Author of English Notes.” What was not noted, until it was discovered by Ton Fafianie and mentioned to the Poe Society in an e-mail dated December 15, 2017, is that the poem “The Times” was collected in a volume of poetry by N. W. Coffin: America, an Ode and Other Poems, Boston: Samuel G. Simpkins, 1843, pp. 109-117.
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[S:0 - JAS] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Essays - English Notes for Extensive Circulation