It produces earnestness, minute, not profuse detail, and fidelity of description. It is possessed by Mr. POE, in its full perfection. The evident and most prominent aim of Mr. P OE is originality, either of idea, or the combination of ideas. He appears to think it a crime to write unless he has something novel to write about, or some novel way of writing about an old thing. He rejects every word not having a tendency to develope the effect.
Most writers get their subjects first, and write to develope it.
And he evidently holds whatever tends to the furtherance of the effect, to be legitimate material. W. Hull considered it by Poe with confidence. It is certain, however, that Poe contributed in some way since it does, as previously noted, contain details known only to Poe. It is possible that Poe merely provided some basic information for the piece. On the other hand, it is also possible that Poe wrote the article but assigned it to English so that it did not appear that he was puffing his own work.