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Rufus Wilmot Griswold
(Born: February 15, 1815 - Died: August 27, 1857)
This engraving of Griswold was published in 1855, a few years before his death from tuberculosis. It is based on a portrait painted by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg (1814-1889).
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- Review of The Poets and Poetry of America
- Review of Poets and Poetry of America (?) (June 1842, text “A” — Graham’s)
- “Griswold’s American Poetry” (November 1842 — Boston Miscellany)
- “Rufus W. Griswold and the Poets” (1850, text “B” — Works) (This notice combined the reviews of The Poets and Poetry of America and The Female Poets of America.)
- Review of The Female Poets of America (February 1849, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
- Notice from “Autography”
- “R. W. Griswold” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
- (See also, Poe’s review of “The Prose Works of John Milton,” edited by Griswold)
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- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - @ May 8, 1841 (OL#111)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - May 29, 1841 (OL#112) (Griswold prints and misdates this as March 29)
- R. W. Griswold to E. A. Poe - January 14, 1845 (Griswold prints and misdates this as January 11, 1845)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - January 16, 1845 (OL#190)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - February 24, 1845 (OL#193)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - April 19, 1845 (OL#196)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - September 28, 1845 (OL#210)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - October 26, 1845 (OL#211)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - @ May 1849 (OL#317)
- E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - June 28, 1849 (OL#321)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - undated, but supposedly 1842 (Griswold’s printed text is considered a fake. No manuscript exists.)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - June 11, 1843 (Griswold’s printed text is considered a fake. No manuscript exists.)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - January 10, 1845 (Griswold’s printed text is considered a fake. No manuscript exists.)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - February 24, 1845 (Griswold’s printed version of the authentic letter is a fake.)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - April 19, 1845 (Griswold’s printed version of the authentic letter is a fake.)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - November 1, 1845 (Griswold’s printed text is considered a fake. No manuscript exists.)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - early 1849 (Griswold’s printed text is considered a fake. No manuscript exists.)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to R. W. Griswold - undated, but supposedly May 1849 (Griswold’s printed postscript to the authentic letter is a fake.)
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- Anonymous, “Our Contributors — No. XIX: Rufus Wilmot Griswold,” Graham’s Magazine, June 1845, 27:241-243
- Bayless, Joy, Rufus Wilmot Griswold: Poe’s Literary Executor, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1943.
- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Rufus Wilmot Griswold,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:611-612
- Griswold, William, Passages from the Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus W. Griswold, Cambridge, MA: William M. Griswold, 1898. (William McCrillis Griswold was the son of Rufus W. Griswold, although he was only four years old when his father died and thus hardly knew him.)
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
- Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 3:3-4
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