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1 the blackness of blue in “blue — stocking women”
2 witticism: a newly appointed librarian now can learn to read
3 loving your enemies versus hating friends
4 a pun from Horace on “gravy”
5 cottage architecture more Dutch than would — be Gothic
6 G. P. R. James’ novels as repetitive
7 pun on sensational literary celebrities
8 pun on Mirabeau’s stay at If
9 kind words for the dead in Puckle and the Roman Twleve Tables
10 Fourierites mistranslate Latin adage on poets.
11 Poe disparages the spiritualist A. J. Davis.
12 politicians compared to departing animals
13 journalists compared to murderous Norse Gods
14 Plain speech if cultivated leads to fish — market English.
15 absurd fashions in long women’s purses
16 election terminology mocked
17 playful metaphors on the soul
18 C. Mathews’ tearful reaction to critics
19 morals of authors in their books and lives
20 epigram on the discipline of children
21 Greek deprecatory epigram applied to banks
22 poets as especially sensitive to injustice
23 genius as abnormal capacity
24 pun on beauty
25 revolutionary spirit in Great Britain — how soothable
26 Transcendental poets show a dying taste.
27 Taglioni, the “oppressed” dancer: a pun on lex Talionis [page lv:]
28 Fourier and Greeley as believers in credulity
29 French youth movement lacks a head.
30 T. S. Arthur’s writings derided
31 Mathews’ poem derided with French metaphor
32 publisher’s lack of critical ability illustrated
33 critical injustice perpetrated by emphasizing the lesser merits of writers
34 the development of “Habit” explained
35 Barrett’s “Lady Geraldine” weakly derived from “Locksley Hall”
36 Decuppis’ discovery of a new planet queried
37 Boileau line quoted on “ignorance is bliss”
38 Bryant and Street compared as descriptive poets
39 the relation between beauty and genius
40 Mathews’ “American Drama” deprecated
41 T. Moore — a fanciful poet, but not imaginative
42 “Suspect” needs new adjectival form.
43 Spenser’s verse repunctuated by Poe for witticism
44 Miss Edgeworth deprecated in evaluation of fashion
45 The People should obey, not shape the laws.
46 Mathews book is unreadable.
47 Greeley’s boot has the shape of Italy.
48 Webster’s Dictionary more English than the English
49 Poe doubts the “seven wise men” existed.
50 Critics try, unsuccessfully, to imitate Macaulay.
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - BRP2B, 1985] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Editions - The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (B. R. Pollin) (Topics in Fifty Suggestions)