Article: Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy.

Jeffrey Meyers. John Murray. 25.00 [pounds].

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Recalling how Arthur Symons drew Ernest Dowson brilliantly out of focus in his epicedial essay, standing memorial as preface at the gateway to the posthumous edition of his works, and thus fathered a legend, one is disturbed to wonder how much to accept of the received legend of Poe, derived from his friend and literary executor (or executioner!) Rufus Wilmot Griswold's smudged picture, and filtered by the hoodwinked down the years.

The Griswold obituary (pseudonymous) and the biographical memoir (acknowledged) present alike a tatterdemalion, albeit nicely romantic, figure, pallid, ...

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