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Note on the Second (Philadelphia) Version of the
Prospectus of “The Penn Magazine”
Poe's phrase in the fourth paragraph — “regarding the world at large as the true audience of the author” — echoes a famous letter he wrote on December 22, 1828, from Fortress Monroe in Virginia to his stepfather John Allan. Poe pleads with Allan to consent to Poe's discharge from the army:
— I only beg you to remember that you yourself cherished the cause of my leaving your family — Ambition. Richmond & the U. States were too narrow a sphere & the world shall be my theatre — [.] (Poe, Letters)
Poe reused the idea elsewhere as well; see, for example, “Exordium” (¶3 and our note).
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - SSLCT, 2009] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - EAP: Critical Theory (S. and S. Levine) (Second Philadelphia Prospectus - Note)