Text: Various, “Opinions of the Press,” Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, VA), vol. I, no. 10, June 1835, covers


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“We cannot subscribe to the praise which we see lavished upon Mr. Edgar A. Poe's ‘palpable obscure’ effusion. His ‘Lion-izing’ is a feeble imitation of Slawkenbergius, and makes a very pedantic display of authors, which he may or may not have read, but of which no one else ever heard. It is, nevertheless, better than his ‘Morella’ of the preceding number.” Charlottesville Advocate

 


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Notes:

The copy at Harvard lacks the covers entirely. The material, consequently, has necessarily been limited to the portions quoted in The Poe Log, which emphasizes the items that mention Poe.

 

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[S:0 - SLM, 1835] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Poems - Editorial Introduction (1835)