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The Elon College Weekly. Edgar Allan Poe-A Critique. (Continued forom page two.) it is no surprise that Baltimore made Poe the sensation of the day, and invited him to balls and dinners—and, too, it should be no matter of surprise that Poe turned a deaf ear to all the city’s cry. He was working now fourteen or fifteen hours a day—this was better than the crowd to him. And for seventeen years he lives such a life—not always as happy though as these days. On September 22, I 834, Poe mar-1 ried his young love, the beautiful and sweet Virginia Clemm, who was at the age of fourteen—just budding into lovely womanhood. Soon after this marriage. The Southern Literary Messenger, a new literary venture its he wrote the fine poem, " The Bells. " And finally it was in Baltimore where the peculiar worshipper of beauty—where the unique and sensitive feminine spirit where genius, played its last role. " At the moment when the poet, rallying from the desolation caused by the death of his wife, found new hope and purpose, and was on his way to marry a woman who possibly might save him, the tragedy of his life began again. Its final scene was as swift, irreparable, black with terror, as that of any drama ever written. His death was gloom. After October 7, 1 849, men saw him no more; but the shadow of a veiled old woman, mourning tor him, hovered here and there. After many years a laureled tomb was placed above his ashes, and there remain to American literature the relics, so unequal in value, of the most isolated and excep- For first class Plumbing, Builders’ Hardware, Farm Implements, Paints, Etc., Etc. BURLINGTON, - N. C. FOR PHOTOGRAPH.S OF QUALITY Have them Made ANGLIN’S at New from Cover to Cover WEBSTER’S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY JUSTIOSUED. Ed. in Chief, Dr. W. T. Harrif, former U. S. Com. of Edn- cation. P General Information Practicatly Doubled. 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This lack of free dom—this yoke of necessity bore heavily upon him. From this time he was sub ject to moods of brooding and despair, of crying out upon fate, that were his pest and ultimate destruction. Poe filled his pest faithfully and turned out copy with tremendous rapidity. But finally the inevitable came. Poe was hard to deal with, for few understo >d the man. He and the chief editor quar relled, and Poe withdrew of his own ac cord, and was not dismissed, as is ofien said. New York was the next stage in the poet’s nomadic I’fe. Here he worked, as in Richmond, livmg a burdened life. 1 he common-place work was allotted as his task, and justly chafing under this rule we find him severing relations again. \ Philadelphia was the next stop. He came here in 1 838 and remained for six years. Then again he emigrates to New York. "In 1845 'The Raven' began its immortal plaint, its eternal song of never more. " The floods of praise swept over the world, but they came not near the genius who penned the words, for he was kneeling by his dying child-wfe. On January 30, 1847, her last smile was given to her prince and poet, and he was left to live on loneliness and heavenly love. After this Poe took to drinking. To drown trouble in wine and to write this was his only aim. Time after time he (American Poets, 237.) And now just a word to Poe's lit erary work—the estimate and the place which has been given him—and we have done. 1 here is the same controversy concern ing his literary standing as there is concern ing his life and character. In the editorials of the Independent for January 21,1909,; we find th's statement, among others: "We admire his craftsmanship twice dis played, but on the evidence of two poems of a hundred lines each we de cline to I'ft him to the summit of our Par nassus." This would place genius upon pi'iC6S a basis of quantity and not quality. Mr. Hamilton Wiight Mabie, in the Outlook for April 24, 1909, says : " The sim ple tact is that Poe wrote a small group of poems at lovely and as far beyond the reach of analysis as a flower; and the ' very perfection of these pieces teases the critics who come to them with the usual academic apparatus or with the standards ot definitely ethical or intellectual art. He has waited long tor clear and adequate appreciation ; for the rank at home which has been given him abroad. He can af ford to wait; for while his work lacks greatness in range, passion, reality, it shows the individuality of conception and distinction ot workmanship which lie within reach of the true poets only. Then is Poe’s claim to rank among the poets disputed because it rests on songs so few and of a quality so elusive ? When was poetry measured by magnitude or valued by bulk ? 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