Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions — John H. Ingram, 1880, volume I
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Historical biography by John H. Ingram, published by John Hogg in London in 1880. This volume preserves the preface, biographical data and chapters I–XIV. The two original volumes are separate local records. The historical illustrations are supplied as local JPEG downloads at the source repository’s resolution. This is a later electronic transcription of the historical book, not a complete photographic facsimile. Ingram’s biographical claims, quoted correspondence and assessments are historical testimony, including disputed claims, rather than modern verified findings. Modern website navigation, commentary, correction glosses and the later 1886-only index entry are excluded. Typography and page layout are simplified. The text has not been independently proofread word by word. This record does not claim to preserve Ingram’s separate 1874 memoir.
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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
Date
1880
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John Henry Ingram (historical biography)
Publisher
John Hogg
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London
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
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Historical biography by John H. Ingram, published by John Hogg in London in 1880. This volume preserves the preface, biographical data and chapters I–XIV. The two original volumes are separate local records. The historical illustrations are supplied as local JPEG downloads at the source repository’s resolution. This is a later electronic transcription of the historical book, not a complete photographic facsimile. Ingram’s biographical claims, quoted correspondence and assessments are historical testimony, including disputed claims, rather than modern verified findings. Modern website navigation, commentary, correction glosses and the later 1886-only index entry are excluded. Typography and page layout are simplified. The text has not been independently proofread word by word. This record does not claim to preserve Ingram’s separate 1874 memoir.
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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions — John H. Ingram, 1880, volume I
Historical biography by John H. Ingram, published by John Hogg in London in 1880. This volume preserves the preface, biographical data and chapters I–XIV. The two original volumes are separate local records. The historical illustrations are supplied as local JPEG downloads at the source repository’s resolution. This is a later electronic transcription of the historical book, not a complete photographic facsimile. Ingram’s biographical claims, quoted correspondence and assessments are historical testimony, including disputed claims, rather than modern verified findings. Modern website navigation, commentary, correction glosses and the later 1886-only index entry are excluded. Typography and page layout are simplified. The text has not been independently proofread word by word. This record does not claim to preserve Ingram’s separate 1874 memoir.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
His Life, Letters, and Opinions
BY
JOHN H. INGRAM.
“Unhappy Master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his Songs one burden bore —
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of ‘Never, — nevermore.’ ”
With Portraits of Poe and His Mother.
VOL. I.
LONDON: JOHN HOGG, PATERNOSTER ROW
1880. ———— [All rights reserved.]
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
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PAGE
PORTRAIT OF E. A. POE · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Frontispiece
PREFACE · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
v
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
xi
CHAP.
I.
PARENTAGE · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
1
II.
CHILDHOOD · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
10
III.
BOYHOOD · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
20
IV.
FIRST LOVE · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
37
V.
ALMA MATER · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
43
VI.
DAWNINGS OF GENIUS · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
54
VII.
EASTWARD HO! · · · · · · · · · · · ·
62
VIII.
WEST POINT · · · · · · · · · · · ·
79
IX.
LITERATURE · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
92
X.
MARRIAGE · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
136
XI.
IN THE CITY OF PENN · · · · ·
153
XII.
EDITOR OF “GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE” · · · · · · ·
181
XIII.
REVERSES · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
207
XIV.
NEW YORK ONCE MORE · · · · · · · · ·
259
John H. Ingram, “Preface,” Edgar Allan Poe: Life, Letters, and Opinions (1880), pp. v-viii
PREFACE.
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AT last, after several years of research, I am enabled to place a full and faithful life of Edgar Allan Poe before the world. It was due to myself, due to the public, and due to the memory of a much maligned man, that the short, vindicatory “Memoir” prefixed to my edition of Poe’s Works in 1874,* and my essays on his Life and Works — published before and after that sketch — should culminate in such a work as this. When that “Memoir of Poe” was published, I drew attention to the fact that no trustworthy biography of the poet had yet appeared in his own country, although that such a work had been frequently projected was then pointed out. Since the publication of my sketch, however, and its substituti
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John Hogg. “Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions — John H. Ingram, 1880, volume I.” 1880. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-6e29879162284bcd96c0dd8511591347. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-6e29879162284bcd96c0dd8511591347. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: John H. Ingram. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions. Volume I. London: John Hogg, 1880.
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