Text: Anonymous, “[Comment on The Raven and Other Poems],” Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), vol. IX, no. 268, December 6, 1845, p. 2, col. 4

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☞ Mr. Edgar A. Poe has recently collected and published his miscellaneous poems, in the introduction to which he is said to treat critics and readers generally with almost unmingled scorn. In return for this, we have been awaiting the fiercest onslaught upon the poet, from a whole swarm of critics and pamphleteers, who might at the same time pay off the scores they and their friends own Mr. Poe, for the ruthless carnage he has made among poetical reputations which appeared to be of thriving growth till they encountered his trenchant blade. But, thus far, the critics are quite mild and encomiastic. Perhaps it is too soon to look for the fun.