Contemporary essayist James Russell Lowell called him “the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America” (Quinn p. In addition to the fame gained from his poetry and short stories (and despite his instability and alcoholism), Poe was regarded as an insightful and acerbic literary critic.
It reads “Among the author’s less elaborate compositions, however, “The Angel’s Visit”, written since the publication of her “Child of the Sea”, is perhaps, upon the whole the best – although “The Forsaken” and “La Vega” are scarcely, if at all, inferior”. at the turn of the twentieth century – beautiful binding that compliments the book’s origin.Įven more intriguing than the book itself, our copy is paired with a small Poe manuscript, part of a literary review that wasn’t published until after his death when it was included in his collected works. The book was originally in cloth, but this copy was rebound in classic New York style brown morocco by Stikeman & Co. “The Raven” had become an instant success when it was first printed in the magazine American Review in January 1845, and its publication in book form has been described as “the most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America” (Allen, p. Earlier his week Peter Harrington acquired a first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven and Other Poems, published in New York in 1845.
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