The life of Edgar Allan Poe .. . NEW YORK: W. J. WIDDLETON. LONDON: ClIATTO AND WINDUS. iS8o. 9^sp^^^ Copyright, William F. Gill. INSCRIBED TO ANNE LYNCH BOTTA THE FRIEND OF EDGAR ALLAN POE 224101 PREFACE For more than a quarter of a century, the Americanpublic, while crowning with laurels the genius ofEdgar A. Poe, has lived on, indolently oblivious ofthe true story of his life. Carping criticism has gloated over the doubtfulrecord of follies and excesses ascribed to him bymalignant enemies like Griswold, while the man, ashe actually lived, is known only to the few. But as truth gradu
The life of Edgar Allan Poe .. . NEW YORK: W. J. WIDDLETON. LONDON: ClIATTO AND WINDUS. iS8o. 9^sp^^^ Copyright, William F. Gill. INSCRIBED TO ANNE LYNCH BOTTA THE FRIEND OF EDGAR ALLAN POE 224101 PREFACE For more than a quarter of a century, the Americanpublic, while crowning with laurels the genius ofEdgar A. Poe, has lived on, indolently oblivious ofthe true story of his life. Carping criticism has gloated over the doubtfulrecord of follies and excesses ascribed to him bymalignant enemies like Griswold, while the man, ashe actually lived, is known only to the few. But as truth gradually displaces falsehood, we shallcome to understand more correctly the true propor-tions of that marred and broken individuality, thatnature so sensitively organized and so rarely devel-oped, under circumstances so exceptionally perilousand perverting. Some years since, the attention of the writer of thismemoir was called to numerous inconsistencies appar-ent in Dr. Rufus W. Griswolds memoir of EdgarAllan Poe, and was induced t
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