The Poets and Poetry of America Author:Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, Lavante, Geoffrey Quarles, Edgar Allan Poe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX TO SATIRE (not In The Original). Griswold, . . . . . . 3, 7, 32 Saunders, 4, 15, 22 Bryant, 7, 20,31, 33 Dana, 7, 8, n, 12 Halleck, 7, 14... more », 31 Sprague 7,9,11,13,31 Willis, 8, n, 19 Holmes, 8, 22 Doane, . . . . . . 8, n, 23 Percival, 8, 9, u, 18 Burleigh, 9,11,18,33 Pike, 9, 24 Simms, 9, 27 Benjamin, 9, 16 Hoffman, 9, n Sargent, 9, 26 Whittier, 17 (?), 21 Hill, . 23 Clarke, 24 Street, ....... 25 Dawes, . 30 Lowell, 30 Goodrich, 30 Cranch, ....... 32 Crosswell, ....... 32 Longfellow, 31 NOTES. 1 " Is Mr.—we ask his pardon—the Reverend Mr.—Griswold, the man of varied talents, of genius, of known skill, of overweening intellect, he was somewhile pictured, or is he the arrant literary quack he is now entitled by the American press ? . . . One of the most clumsy literary thieves, who, in his wildest aspirations, never even dreamed of an original thought."—Poe's review of Griswold's book on the Poets. 3 u A satire is, of course, no/eww," says Poe in his review of Bryant (vol. iii., p. 182, Griswold's ed.). The italics are his. This bears out the hypothesis that Poe's sensitiveness to criticism, and his passion for originality were additional reasons for publishing " a satire " anonymously. The uniqueness of "The Raven" and "The Bells" is not possible in this metre. .9 If we are to believe the critics and the press at large, says Poe, '' we shall find ourselves the most enviable people on the face of the earth. Our fine writers are legion. . . . All our poets are Miltons, neither mute nor inglorious, . . . and everybody who writes ... is the admirable Crichton, or, at least, the admirable Crichton's ghost."—Poe in the review of " Quacks of Helicon" 4 Poe has a " Marginalia " note on Dr. Es...« less