Upon the whole I think this the most spirited poem you have written. If I were you, I would retain all the prose pretax.
You will observe that I have taken the liberty of making some suggestions in the body of the poem--the force of which, I think, would be much increased by the introduction of an occasional short line, for example: --
[This letter appears in J. H. Whitty's Complete Poems of Edgar Allan
Poe, 1911, p. 210. Accompanying this letter is a page from Mrs. Lewis'
"The Prisoner of Perote," with Poe's suggestions. Whitty does not provide
a date for this item.]
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