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”MATHEW MATTOCKS” AND POETRY.
Edgar A. Poe, in asserting the claims of the American mind to poetical characteristics, avers that “the highest order of the imaginative intellect is always pre-eminently mathematic,” a self evident truth, we opine, for is not poetry the science of number?
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Notes:
The quote, as given, appears first in Poe's review of “Griswold's American Poetry” (Boston Miscellany, November 1842). It was repeated, verbatim, in “American Poetry” (Aristidean, November 1845). In October 1848, Poe had just published the first half of his essay “The Rationale of Verse” (Southern Literary Messenger, October 1848), which touches on the same idea, but does not use this phrasing. The title reference to Mathew Mattocks is unclear.
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[S:0 - BSR, 1848] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - Mathew Mattocks and Poetry (Anonymous, 1848)