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The ending is interesting, touches on the feud between Griswold and Poe.

Poe had made the strategic mistake of dying before a man who hated him.

I'm glad I only paid $7 for this.

Now Harry Lee Poe is claiming Bernado Bertolucci's 2003 film The Dreamers was inspired by The Fall of the House of Usher.

I wrote a paper on this film, and Edgar Allan Poe never came up in my research. There's no source or citation for any of this stuff. I'm not saying it's not true, but this is starting to annoy me a little bit

Harry Lee Poe is making a big deal out of EAP using unreliable narrator in "The Fall of the House of Usher," but I'm wondering how unique of a literary device this really was in that time?

I'm tired of Harry Lee Poe telling me about Edgar Allan Poe and I simply want to read the letters, as a whole. Not little excerpts of them. That would be my main criticism of this.

This is interesting. I did previously have the impression Poe was a tortured soul who lived an isolated, lonely life and here are letters where Poe admits his poems containing horror are not his favorite, he just knows they sell.

This is classic stuff they teach authors. To sell books (or poems, in Poe's case) you gotta find the combination of writing commericial, but also including something original, of yourself in it

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Poe himself thought the poem Berenice "was in bad taste" yet he continued to write simillar tales of horror b/c he recognized other presses who published similar tales sold well.

(letter to White in 1834)

p.46 Poe's thoughts on poetry. Disagreed with Wordsworth

This book is cool, because it has reprinted letters, but idk if this is because I have brain fog from a head cold, but for the life of me I can't make out the cursive. And I actually want to know what's in the letter. I wish the letters were typed out in print on the page. I'm old so I was taught cursive in school, I should be able to read this.