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Articles and Essays, 1827-1850






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Items here are listed chronologically. Reprinted items are listed under the earliest date of publication.








1827-1839

  • [Notice of Poe's poem "Fairyland"] (1829) by John Neal, Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette, September 1829
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  • [Notice of Poe's Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems] (1829) by John Neal, Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette, December 1829
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  • [Review of Poe's Poems (1831)], by George P. Morris (?) (The New-York Mirror, May 7, 1831)
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  • [Review of Narrative of A. G. Pym] by William Evans Burton, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), September 1838
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  • [Review of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque] by L. F. Tasistro, New York Mirror (December 21 and 28, 1839)
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    		1840-1849

    • "Edgar A. Poe" by Rufus W. Griswold, brief introductory notice to The Poets and Poetry of America
      • "Edgar A. Poe" (1842) The Poets and Poetry of America (1st edition)
      • "Edgar A. Poe" (1847) The Poets and Poetry of America (8th edition)
      • "Edgar A. Poe" (1850) The Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition)
      • "Edgar Allan Poe" (1855) The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition)
  • "American Biography: Edgar Allan Poe" by Joseph E. Snodgrass, Baltimore Saturday Visiter, July 29, 1843.
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  • "Edgar Allan Poe" by James Russell Lowell
  • "Our Contributors -- Edgar Allan Poe"  (February 1845, Graham's Magazine)
  • Edgar A. Poe
  • Part I (January 20, 1845, Evening Mirror (New York))
  • Part II (January 21, 1845, Evening Mirror (New York))
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  • "Edgar A. Poe"  (February 1, 1845, New-York Weekly Tribune)  (excerpts of the article, with Poe's poems "To Helen" and "The Haunted Palace." The short introduction reads: "This number of Graham's Magazine has a likeness of EDGAR A. POE, with a critique upon that critic and a brief outline of his career thus far, by James Russell Lowell. [/] This article is frank, earnest, and contains many just thoughts, expressed with force and point. We quote the following . . . ")
  • "Edgar A. Poe"  (1847)  (a copy of the Graham's article, with two minor corrections by Lowell, signed and dated, possibly for use in Poe's proposed book on "Literary America.")
  • "Edgar A. Poe" (Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, 1850)
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  • "Plagiarism" by Outis, Evening Mirror (New York), March 1, 1845.
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  • "[Review of Poe's lecture on the] Poets and Poetry of America" by N. P. Willis, Evening Mirror, March 1, 1845.
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  • "[Review of Poe's Tales]" by Evert A. Duyckinck, American Review, September 1845
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  • "[Review of Poe's Tales]" by Martin Farquhar Tupper, Literary Gazette, January 31, 1846
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  • The Evening Mirror and T. D. English's Literati War
  • "Mr. Poe and the New York Literati" by Hiram Fuller, Evening Mirror (New York), May 26, 1846 (reprinted in the Weekly Mirror, May 30, 1846)
  • "Mr. English's Reply to Mr. Poe" by Thomas Dunn English, Evening Mirror (New York), June 23, 1846 (reprinted in the Weekly Mirror, June 27, 1846)
  • "In Reply to Mr. Poe's Rejoinder" by Thomas Dunn English, Evening Mirror (New York), July 13, 1846
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    • "Edgar A. Poe" by Rufus W. Griswold, brief introductory notice to The Prose Writers of America
      • "Edgar A. Poe" (1847) The Prose Writers of America (1st edition, issued March 3, 1847)
      • "Edgar A. Poe" (1851) The Prose Writers of America (4th edition, isued May-June, 1851)
  • "Edgar Allan Poe" by Phillip Pendleton Cooke (Southern Literary Messenger, Jan. 1848)
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  • [Report on Poe's Lecture on "The Universe"] by John H. Hopkins (Evening Express (New York), Feburary 4, 1848)
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  • "Death of Edgar A. Poe" by "Ludwig" (Rufus Wilmot Griswold)
  • "Death of Edgar A. Poe" (October 9, 1849, New York Daily Tribune)
  • "Death of Edgar A. Poe" (October 16, 1849, New York Daily Tribune, California edition)
  • "Death of Edgar Allan Poe" (October 20, 1849, New York Weekly Tribune) (with some additional material omitted from the first edition but printed in the Tribune for October 10, 1849)
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  • "The Late Edgar A. Poe" by John R. Thompson (Southern Literary Messenger, November 1849)
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  • "The Death of Edgar Poe" by Nathaniel P. Willis
  • "The Death of Edgar Poe" by Nathaniel P. Willis, Home Journal, October 20, 1849.
  • "The Death of Edgar Poe" (Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, 1850)
  • "Edgar Poe" (Hurry-Graphs; or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities, & Society, Taken from Life, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851)
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  • "Death of Poe" by  E. H. N. Patterson, Oquawka Spectator (Oquawka, Illinois), October 24, 1849
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  • "Literary Fame" by  E. H. N. Patterson, Oquawka Spectator (Oquawka, Illinois), November 7, 1849
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    		1850

  • "Edgar Allan Poe" by John M. Daniel, Southern Literary Messenger, March 1850
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  • "Edgar Allan Poe" by Rufus Wilmot Griswold
  • "Edgar Allan Poe" by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (International Magazine, October 1850)
  • "Preface and Memoir" (Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, 1850)
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  • "The Late Edgar Allan Poe" by George Rex Graham
  • "The Late Edgar Allan Poe" by George Rex Graham, Graham's Magazine (March 1850)
  • "[Introduction]" by George Rex Graham, Poems [by Edgar Allan Poe] (New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1850) (used along with Willis's article as a memoir)
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  • "Cryptography — Mr. Poe as a Cryptographer" by Rev. Warren H. Cudworth, Lowell Weekly Journal (April 19, 1850)
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  • "Edgar A. Poe" by John Neal, Portland Daily Advertiser (Portland, Maine), April 26, 1850
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