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☞ Poor Mr. Poe, of the New York Broadway Journal, is in a perfect convulsion of fury at the entire population of Boston because they didn’t like “poem,” as he calls it, recently delivered before the Boston Lyceum. We give the last paragraph long and savage onslaught that he makes on Boston folks. The reader will understand that he calls them “frogpondians” because there is upon Boston common a basin of water formerly known the very unromantic name of the “frog-pond:”
In conclusion: The frogpondians may as spare us their abuse. If we cared a fig for wrath, we should not first have insulted them their teeth, and then subjected to their tender a volume of our poems; that, we think, is clear. The fact is, we despise them and defy (the transcendental vagabonds!) and they may to the devil together.
Mr. Poe, in the same article, says he is willing to admit that he was drunk when he delivered his poem in Boston. This is not enough — he ought also to admit that he was drunk when he wrote it. He says: “We shall get drunk when we please. “ Undoubtedly he has a right to get drunk when pleases, provided he doesn’t do it “on tick,” but if, in his drunken fits, he jostles ladies and gentlemen, must expect to be kicked or ducked in a “frog-pond.”
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - LDJ, 1845] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - Comment on Poe's Boston Lyceum Lecture (Anonymous, 1845)