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Title page:

THE

GENIUS AND CHARACTER

OF

EDGAR ALLAN POE

BY

JOHN R. THOMPSON

Edited and Arranged by

JAMES H. WHITTY and JAMES H. RINDFLEISCH

Privately Printed

1929

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	FOREWORD	v
CHAPTER I
	THE STORY OF A PAINTER	1
CHAPTER II
	POE'S INTELLECT AND MORALE	5
CHAPTER III
	POE, THE CRITIC	10
CHAPTER IV
	POE, THE STORY-TELLER	17
CHAPTER V
	POE, THE POET	27
CHAPTER VI
	POE'S CHARACTER	37

	APPENDIX A, Rufus W. Griswold's Memoir of the Author, 1850	47

	APPENDIX B, Article in The Edinburgh Review	51

	APPENDIX C, Thompson and Griswold	53

	INDEX	59

	[NOTE	62]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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EDGAR ALLAN POE (photogravure)		Frontispiece
	From a daguerreotype made at Richmond, Va., by Pratt, and given to John R. Thompson by Poe during his last visit to Richmond. On the death of Mr. Thompson it passed to his sister, Mrs. Quarles, then to the late Mr. Isaac M. Dyckman, his second cousin. It is reproduced through the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, and Professor George E. Woodberry, Beverly, Mass. The autograph is from a letter to John R. Thompson, dated December 7, 1848.

THE MESSENGER LAW BUILDING		44
	Franklin Street, near Twelfth Street, Richmond, Va.

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Notes:

The editors were James Howard Whitty (1859-1937) and James Henry Rindfleisch (1894-1940). The main text prints the manuscript of the lecture on Poe that John Reuben Thompson delivered many times, beginning about 1859.

It is assumed that the copyright on this book has expired, and it is now essentially in the public domain. Both authors have been dead for more than 60 years, and there is no record to indicate that the copyright was renewed. This text, then, is presented under a broad assumption of fair use, and with the idea that all parties would have been pleased to have this work widely available for use, for educational purposes and without any charge for access. If a reasonable claim for copyright can be documented, please contact the Poe Society of Baltimore to arrange for permission, or to request that we remove the material.

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