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Updated: June 23, 2025
Of all writers, with one exception, Poe interests me the most; and I judge that in interest, both as a personality and as a literary artist, Doctor Bainbridge placed Edgar Allan Poe first and uppermost among those who have left to the world a legacy of English verse or prose. And this feeling was, I truly believe, in no measure influenced by Poe's nationality.
Or do you think that Poe is comforted by such avid attentions in his present abode? In truth, Melville's only rivalry is now within, and Poe's only raven that daunting memory of those truths which had escaped him in life, but which now are opened to you. More importantly, if this manuscript has been found, it proves that what is contained herein is the unerring truth.
The mere suspicion of scientific thought or scientific methods has a great charm in any branch of literature, however far it may be removed from actual research. Poe's tales, for example, owe much to this effect, though in his case it was a pure illusion.
The gloomiest of Hawthorne's short stories are spiritually sound and sweet: Poe's, on the contrary, might be described as unmoral; they seem written by one disdaining all the touchstones of life, living in a land of eyrie where there is no moral law. He would no more than Lamb indict his very dreams.
The raw stuff of the plot is pieced together from the story of The Tell-tale Heart and the poem Annabel Lee. It has behind it, in the further distance, Poe's conscience stories of The Black Cat, and William Wilson. I will describe the film here at length, and apply it to whatever chapters it illustrates. The nephew is impersonated by Henry B. Walthall.
Now I truly believe that the first writing of 'The Raven' and, too, the stanzas were probably not first written in their present published order conveyed Poe's poetic sense just as completely as the published poem now does.
The realists have followed the letter, and the romantics the spirit, of other times and lands. As an example of a pure romantic setting, far removed from actuality and yet thoroughly truthful in artistic fitness to the action and the characters, we can do no better than examine the often-quoted opening of Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher:"
Poe's possessed of a devil, I tell you, who gets the better of him once in a while it did the night of St. George's dinner." "Very charitable in you, Richard," exclaimed Pancoast, another dissenter "and perhaps it will be just as well for his family, if he has any, to accept your view but, devil or no devil, you must confess, Horn, that it was pretty hard on St. George.
To find the hidden treasure through the talisman of The Goldbug, or through the possession of analytical faculties such as those of the protagonist of Poe's tale? Much consideration will lead to the conclusion that one process is as marvellous as the other. It may be said that there is nothing miraculous in nature, and it may be said that it is all miraculous.
Her husband, wrapped in the military cloak that had once covered her, followed the body to the tomb in the family vault of the Valentines, relatives of the family. Next to "The Raven," Poe's most famous work is that fascinating story, "The Gold-Bug," perhaps the best detective story that was ever written, for it is based on logical principles which are instructive as well as interesting.
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