Edgar Poe and His Critics

by Sarah Helen Whitman, Oral Sumner Coad (Editor)

1845. A brochure written by Sarah Helen Whitman, poet, essayist, Transcendentalist, spiritualist and romantic interest of Edgar Allen Poe. It was written after Poe's death and was later released under the title of Was Poe Immoral? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

105 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let Mrs. Whitman's own words in the Preface of this book be its best summarization:
"It has been assumed by a recent English critic that 'Edgar Poe had no friends.' As an index to a more equitable and intelligible theory of the idiosyncrasies of his life, and as an earnest protest against the spirit of Dr. Griswold’s unjust memoir, these pages are submitted to his more candid readers and critics by ONE OF HIS FRIENDS." (11)