. The great American book of biography . lecture he recited Hoods Bridge of Sighs. A little boyabout twelve years of age wassitting near me. He was listen-ing intently, and before Poe hadfinished the poem he was in there be any greater tri-bute to a speakers power? Afterthe lecture Poe very modestlysaid, I have been requested torecite my own poem, The Ra-ven. No one who heard thiswill ever forget the beauty andpathos with which this recitation was rendered. The audience was as still asdeath, and as his weird, musical voice filled the hall, its effect was simply inde-scribable. It s
. The great American book of biography . lecture he recited Hoods Bridge of Sighs. A little boyabout twelve years of age wassitting near me. He was listen-ing intently, and before Poe hadfinished the poem he was in there be any greater tri-bute to a speakers power? Afterthe lecture Poe very modestlysaid, I have been requested torecite my own poem, The Ra-ven. No one who heard thiswill ever forget the beauty andpathos with which this recitation was rendered. The audience was as still asdeath, and as his weird, musical voice filled the hall, its effect was simply inde-scribable. It seems to me that I can yet hear that long, plaintive Nevermore. A lady who was an intimate friend of Poe in his later years says of him :— I have never seen him otherwise than gentle, generous, well-bred, and fastidiously a sensitive and delicately nurtured woman there was a peculiar and irresistible charm in thechivalric, graceful, and almost tender reverence with which he invariably approached all womenwho won his EDGAR A. POE. Poe died in Baltimore in 1849. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, THE GREATEST AMERICAN WRITER OF ROMANCE. THE famous author of TheScarlet Letter and The MarbleFaun was the son of a sea-cap-tain, and was born in Salem, MaSsachusetts, in 1804. (See p. 638.)He graduated at Bowdoln College,Maine, Longfellow, the poet, andFranklin Pierce, afterward Presi-dent of the United States, beingamono- his classmates. Hawthornewas moody and melancholy, andPierce did much to cheer and en-courage him, thus laying the foun-dation of a lifelong friendship. In1843 Hawthorne took up his resi-dence at Concord, in the OldManse (see p. 640), which he hasmade so famous, and from whosewindows, it is said, the minister ofthe parish, on April 19th, 1775,looked out upon the memorablebattle between his fellow-townsmenand the British troops. In 1846 hepublished Mosses from an Old Manse, and in 1850 The Scarlet Letter,which immediately placed him at the head of American writ
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