Edgar Allan

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    ““Over the mountains
    Of the moon,
    Down the valley of the shadow,
    Ride, boldly ride,”
    The shade replied,—
    “If you seek for Eldorado!””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimism ... it was surely Edgar Allan Poe—without question the bravest and most original, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “The mimes become its food,
    And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
    In human gore imbued.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)