Text: Anonymous, “Obituary Notices,” American Quarterly Register and Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), vol. III, no. 2, December 1849, p. 493

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OCTOBER.

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6th. [[7th]] At the Washington Hospital, Baltimore, EDGAR A. POE, Esq. He was a poet of singular originality and power-of rare genius, great scholarship, and a caustic and severe critic, as well as writer in other departments of pure literature. At about 38 years of age, he terminated a life of those trials to which genius is too often subject.

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