Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-30
Rr the Last mails we have from DIE publisher,

j. S. Redffeld, New York, beautifully gotten
up duodecimo volume of Edgar a. Poe's poems,
illustrated. To illustrate Poe would naturally
seem to require Poe himself and of course ar
tistic ltterateurs will differ greatly in their esti
mates of these finely executed whatever the
designs may beg pictures The book opens with
an original biographical sketch of Poe, which
is much the same with several critiques that we
have read. In factit seems impossible for Poe's
biographers to be far apart for his individuality
was SO distinct, his genius and his sins being
alike so obvious, as to admit of no material dis
crepancy. The best thing that can be said for
him, in our opinion, is said in this sketch be-
fore u.s. viz: shat it would be we'll for all poets
if nothing more were known of their lives, than
what they infuse into their poetry" Edgar A.
Poe had probably the worst moral character of
any man who ever wrote poetry. The author of
this memoir thinks he has found a key to the true
Interpretation of Poe, in the fact 'that there is
nowhere dlscernable in his writings the con-
seriousness of moral responsibility
''They are full of the subtleties of passion of
grief, despair, and longing, but they contain
nothing that indicates sense of moral rectitute.
They are the productions of one whose religion
was a worship of the Beautiful, and who knew
NJ! no beauty out that @hich was purely sensuous.
md tbev ,ero ForT, ~, T.1o H. tCr
an ideal world of perfect shows. and was made
wretched by any imperfection of art. The
LeHore whose loss he deplored, was fair being
to tho eye, n beautiful creature, like Undine,
of the poet, there is no difficulty in fully com
pretending the strange Inconsistencies, the
oaseness ana nooleness which his hayward life
0Na.,o'eo
'.S % . s:l0tslole lA,' spe'ine" u 'ne Sty!0
" ''to ti CIV. no". "nicn VIC quote' Ss
"lSo' Al u. iAe'iuoou. just "pPFec'aUon Oh tue
U ~, u tHe nielnon i,
LUG Poeu's ope,'' u COURSE win Tue isaVen'
"on "u''"' lOt Tue SaNe Oh Tue Illustration VIC
soS"''.'-
weary, ''''-s - N''
While nodde@neariy nsppingMs9ddeniy there came
Az ~ ta sdn,a ons GENTLE, ro,,,n,,. .,,,n,
door es''' -'FF'NS 'NPPtns 81 NY SnAnDeE
visitor muttered-tapp,ng at my chamber door
The illustration of this opening of the poem
wherein Poe's fame as poet rests, is that of a
youth seated in massive cushioned chair, be-
fore table, upon whichis lamp ofthe old fash
ion, shaded, and sending forth some wild flickers
of light around the disordered looking apart
ment. The youth is half turned round in his
chair. his brow somewhat contorted while an
800 ~
expression Oh semlaostraction' wonder and fear
IS over ms features: lie is supposed to be lis
ten'ns LOT repetition OF the rapplng at his
chamber door" dc holds in his hands one of
the quaint volumes OF forgotten lore" while
several more with huge clasps on, lie scattered
ABOUT OF piled uPln an old easement before
him:
rms opening OF the Raven is not passage
about which there could be much doubt or
matte of fact oss d;oaa.,. Is e9tirety
totally t1iFsrent massage FIR the chin os ,b0 ia
signor was that If tho onan;ne ~ ..TT,.a >,
Forinstance. who could dSfnitivalv all nn H..
fore them IN sbono nrasanta, - ~, san 20. o1
ave snch nloce nc tbis2 ''' O''s" % :
1,z s, 49,. - -, 49,, 49, A..
II ths misty MD region Of Weir
In the chou Sa uni Si Woodland ID Of Wern
The illustration here IS n moorland lake be.
grit with thriftless looking trees and cIumns of
bushes; the place looks dismalv dark-tbs hack
ground in the skv only beinu relieve1 nv = onh.