Allan Poe

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    The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice—although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    When the light was extinguished,
    She covered me warm,
    And she prayed to the angels
    To keep me from harm—
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)