Excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe: His Genius and Character Griswold's Memoir has so per meated the reading world that even now, after the lapse of half a cen tury, a good deal of the obloquy associated with Poe's memory and much of the sophistical disparage ment of his genius may be traced to his first biographer. Horace wisely observed that the cask will long retain the avor of that liquid with which it was first filled and, indeed, it is no simple task quickly to reverse the judg ment of a well-known contemporary, ...
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Excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe: His Genius and Character Griswold's Memoir has so per meated the reading world that even now, after the lapse of half a cen tury, a good deal of the obloquy associated with Poe's memory and much of the sophistical disparage ment of his genius may be traced to his first biographer. Horace wisely observed that the cask will long retain the avor of that liquid with which it was first filled and, indeed, it is no simple task quickly to reverse the judg ment of a well-known contemporary, especially when that judgment has been disseminated by the powerful medium of the pen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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