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Thread #131271 Message #2960726
Posted By: GUEST,josep
08-Aug-10 - 03:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Was Poe a pro-slavery racist?
Subject: RE: BS: Was Poe a pro-slavery racist?
"Edgar Allan Poe--An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories" by Harry Lee Poe who teaches at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee and was a past president of the Poe Museum in Richmond. By his name, you might have guessed a familial relation and indeed he is a cousin. The book is full of pictures and historical matter including replicas of Poe's letters, his marriage certificate to Virginia Clemm, a copy of the American Review's issue that carried "The Raven" and also the front page of the Baltimore Saturday Visiter that carried "Ms. Found in a Bottle" which had won the paper's fiction prize and other memorabilia. Very much worth having for any Poe enthusiast. I also looked at some web biographies, Wiki and stuff like but I can't be certain of what I looked at.