Edgar Allan Poe (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...to return, and a proposal vaguely entertained by Foster, editor of the " Aurora," to start a magazine in New York under Poe's charge. None of these plans came to anything; and, as always when everything else failed, Poe returned to his scheme for starting a magazine of his own. He had at once advertised the " Penn " on leaving " Graham's," 2 and addressed his friends and acquaintances through a new Prospectus, and besought them to obtain subscriptions, of which he needed five hundred. As before, " The Penn Magazine " was to be original, fearless, and independent, and would in particular open its columns to merit instead of mushroom reputations, and would be distinguished by criticism instead of puffery. To Washington Poe, the head of his Augusta relatives, he wrote in August that he would issue the first number in the next January, with the hope that he might serve truth and advance American literature, and that fortune and fame would now come to him hand in hand.1 He succeeded in interesting Mr. Thomas C. Clarke, the owner of the " Saturday Museum," a weekly paper, in his plan, and the two entered into a partnership for the publication of the new periodical, which it was thought best to call " The Stylus." 1 Poe to Griswold. Griswold, xxi. Cf. letter circa January, 1849, ibid-xxii., in which Poe speaks of the review in the Pioneer as having actually appeared in 1843, but it is not to be found there. Possibly Poe contributed it, and the sudden suspension of the Pioneer prevented its publication. 2 The New York Mirror, July 30, 1842. The literary work of Poe during the last half of this year was slight. In October he contributed to " Graham's " his long-delayed article on " Rufus Dawes," in which at last he took satirical vengeance on that...