Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters and Opinons (1886), title page and table of contents


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Title page:

 

 

EDGAR ALLAN POE

His Life, Letters, and Opinions

BY

JOHN H. INGRAM.

“Unhappy Master whom unmerciful Disaster

Followed fast and followed faster till his Songs one burden bore —

Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore

Of ‘Never, — nevermore.’ ”

 

NEW EDITION.

 

LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S. W.

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1886.
 
(All rights reserved.)

 

 



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Table of Contents

CONTENTS

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                                PAGE
PREFACE    iii
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA    vi
    CHAP        
I. PARENTAGE    1
II. CHILDHOOD    8
III. BOYHOOD    16
IV. FIRST LOVE    30
V. ALMA MATER    35
VI. DAWNINGS OF GENIUS    44
VII. EASTWARD HO!    51
VIII. WEST POINT    65
IX. LITERATURE    75
X. MARRIAGE    110
XI. IN THE CITY OF PENN    124
XII. EDITOR OF “GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE    146
XIII. REVERSES    167
XIV. NEW YORK ONCE MORE    209
XV. THE “BROADWAY JOURNAL    238
XVI. THE LITERATI OF NEW YORK    286
XVII. MARIE LOUISE SHEW    316
XVIII. EUREKA!    341
XIX. HELEN WHITMAN    366
XX. “ANNIE    388
XXI. LAST DAYS    416
FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM POE    323
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APPENDIX   A.  POES ANCESTRY    435
      ”        B.  WILLIAM HENRY LEONARD POE    441
      ”        C.  ROSALIE M. POE    444
      ”        D.  LADY FRIENDSHIPS    445
      ”        E.  THE POE MEMORIAL    449
      ”        F.  BIOGRAPHIES OF POE    468
      ”        G. BIBLIOGRAPHY    474
      ”        G. BIBLIOGRAPHY [[1891 version]]    474
INDEX    481

 



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Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS

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FRONTISPIECE [[only in later printings]]   
POE'S SCHOOL AT STOKE NEWINGTON    8
MRS. CLEMM    110
FACSIMILE LETTER FROM POE TO MRS. SHEW, JANUARY 29, 1847    324

 


Notes:

There is no list of illustrations in the original.


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