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William Kirkland












(Born: 1800 - Died: October 19, 1846)

American author. He married Caroline Kirkland before 1828.

















Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "The Literati"
    • "William Kirkland" ("The Literati of New York City" - No. I) — May 1846 — Godey's Lady's Book  (reprinted in the June 1846 issue)
    • "William Kirkland" ("The Literati") — 1850 — WORKS










Bibliography:
  • 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)
  • Reece, James B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the "Literati" Sketches and of Poe's Relations with the NewYork Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.
  • 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, 3:555-556 (in an entry for Samuel Kirkland)







 
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