Edgar Allan Poe: His Genius and Character (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe: His Genius and Character

Griswold's Memoir has so per meated the reading world that even now, after the lapse of half a cen tury, a good deal of the obloquy associated with Poe's memory and much of the sophistical disparage ment of his genius may be traced to his first biographer.

Horace wisely observed that the cask will long retain the flavor of that liquid with which it was first filled and, indeed, it is no simple task quickly to reverse the judg ment of a well-known contemporary, especially when that judgment has been disseminated by the powerful medium of the pen.

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