Text: Anonymous, “Mr. Poe's Lecture [on the ‘Poetic Principle’],” Daily Richmond Times (Richmond, VA), vol. 74, no. 194, August 17, 1849, p. 2, col. 4

Mr. POE'S LECTURE. — Edgar A. Poe, Esq., delivers a Lecture to-night at the Exchange Concert Room, on the POETIC PRINCIPLE. It is scarcely necessary for us to-say, that to rare scholarship, the lecturer adds genius of an eccentric but very high order. Mr. Poe's contributions to the periodical literature of the country, have rendered his fame co-extensive with the Union. His lecture will, without doubt, excite a high degree of interest.