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Edgar a. Poe.
wa learn from our Northern exchanges that
the remains Of Edgar A. Poe, the poet, novelist
and essayist, are lying in one corner Of . Bal
tinore Cemetery with hardly mark by which
the spot can be recognized.
Poor Poe! A brighter genius rarely comes
into the world, passes more painfully through u
or makes d sadder exit from it His whole hfe
was one continued elegy and sorrow; series q
disappointments and mournful failures. Ane2-
istence that might have been bright and pleas
ant was constantly clouded BY his own foliiess
and an intellect that might have shone nrli-
liantly and been remembered long after death,
Was dinmed by its possessor's faults Even ~
1t ii, however, Poe's name occupies no obscure
niche among American authors, and some OF ms
works are destined, on account Of their orlgl-
nality and power, to live more years than We
NAV name- 1t can safely be prophecied, with
out the gift Of inspiration. that ss.The Raven +
IS one of those few compositions that will keep
their place in the world Of letters almost as
long as the language lasts in which they are writ
ten. Its strange, fantastic RHYTHM chimes adj
mirably with the wild and weird imagery that
it clothes, and some of the Lines fall on the ear
with an almost oriental righteousness Of sound
II il UNIQUE and original There was nothing
like ii before. nor have any Of all its num-
berless limitations equalled it One Of the
most capable Of English critics has pronounced
it the strongest, manifest and most worthy poem
Of the century. In addition to the I" Raven !
there az 6 Annabel Lee, the e Bells, = and
sundry other os bis productions as novel and as
touching as any Of Tom Hoods
But it was not in poetry only that Poe ex-
celled, nor was it in poetry that he chiefly ex-
hibited the powers and peculiarities Of his mind
One must have read his tales and essays to form
any correct opinion Of what was the rsal
strength III bis genius and the true direction OF
his talent. Probably, since the times Of Jona-
than Edwards, the country has not produced a
more close, analytic and mathematical intellect,
Or one more clear and logical. Calhoun had
something Of this fine, philosophical taste, but
could not enunciate it with the strength and
iucidity of the poet nor do we know of any one
except Coleridge, who seemed to be able IN az
equal degree to crystalline and render transpar-
ent ~ wen as forcible, the most abstruse rea-
soninga.
1t is too late, however. to write review q
Poe. what could be said has been said of him.
most eloquently and appropriately by Griswold
Willis and other New York writers, who knew
and appreciated him dbiit ad zaajores--he is
gone, and has left us only the moral and remem-
brance Of his life It is sad, nevertheless, to
think Of the promise Of his early years and its
realization 70 recall what he might have been
and what he was, and, finally, to read q record
so mournful as the following. Poor Poe
After LIES htfnl fever he sleeps well.'
The st. Louis Republican publishes the fol-
lowing from d correspondent, who sought to find
the poets burial place:
AMER had seen all relies Of the poet asked where
he was buried and was told that his grave was IL The
cemetery 50 went there and asked the kesper where
could find this grave Of Edgar Poe He SAID ne dd no
recsiieut the name such fae) but he would examine
the books r was sure that be died in December ls49
bt Is make sure We looked the list Of nterments Of
I8kS 1870 1850 but Poes name was not among them
He was not buried there then recolected That zoe
had once been insane and confused for time IN the
Asylum; 90 the next Btrp Of my sad pilgrimage was W
that establishment The Superintendent recsiyed me
most politely and showed through the great building
Es ld that Poe was one Of the most terribly
an ,a r. mab INV When mind ike bis fell
it was like ths fall IF Lucifer .. ~.
grave Of Poo but could mot find it, He said that had
besn hsrs ssid ne eaa, fsa NJ T.
tars Fed b could not believe il and hurried away in
painful Bnt Il the se nv sh oa
WAS correct. Il is sad 80 think Of it, said be, and
reproaoh 70 native sty put u ~ H.
tar ss I Tield H. : -
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solitary carriage completed the funeral array In slsne:
the tenement IF clay which onca enshrued noble SOU
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ca,,,ts eomelv. called aAlma Mater wa.
rlayad tocether with 4 farce entitled 81 Who il
81, H,,sband y, N was tia first time 6 Aim,
Mater !, HAS been played in this city, and it wa
evoct,v What miuht he expected to emanate from
~ non ~ tba aI,thor II l. London Assurance.
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The characters are an utterly mean anu con
temptlble' wlth ioW views ana rascaiiy pursuits
and seem % pc surviving 70 sse Wnlch can mor'
thoroughly dupe ana oeIool ,ne otner
Ihere were . NUMBER u very eooa persoha
lions, and, indeed, considering that the oom