The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-18

.tHrcd. lie is the foremost
genius this country has pro-
80, / read it. He is so rec
..@.f Ivy many men Of letters i'm
..... Britain and France, and this has
...r for u quarter Of a century.
-... The North prefers such a
... u~OustrO&ity as Whitman.
.- have different standards and
.a.5.-. All are not IF Attic
.. ..I some prefer Browning TO
..... I'm ana Whitman 10 Poe.
... .a.tr is no accounting for This.
...a.5r poe TO any New England
..-r of verse. That Will trike d
.. H.. a- being bad taste and marked
.Hlre. poe was not Il Yankee al
.H born in Boston. His mother
english actress, and was for
lu hat city. His birth there
ii. accident. He was born the
.... of January, 1909. the wear in
.r U~euuyson was born. He died in
.. ...rro ON the 9Th Of October, 1849,
Mas. buried in Westminster
... e4sard, in that city, where his
.-..o.@ OH his fathers side we're
a.. rI r;ut eight persOns-siX his own
a.. .#-ra-saW the greatest genius of
..e'nt laid in the grave. What
.u.fHe.' genius Of brilliant and
.r..us. pjFcticaI qualities had but eight
.. .E#t|I'l Hin iLilcIdl- IL would not
49,. 10 lpW- If Poe were to be buried
. Baltimore some day soon many
.I-ands would be present in sym
..E and admiration. In 1873, an
Southern poet IF true inspira-
" 49, "aul Hamilton Hayne, Of South
l.#1Ina birth, issued an appeal to
...- u monument erected to the mem
ut Edgar Allan Poe. who "kneW
.1usaIf 70 sing and build poems OF
..rErlIou& melody and Fascination. Up
. that time-think OF it ye men OF
opposed culture and love for the
I. .utjful-nOt plank or simple
uHn marked the grave Of the South's
...-I exquisite, perfect. inspired OF
...Is. What Il very d~isgracefuI neglect.
I.U lhankS to my old friend Haync,
.-ttrr condition exists now. A monu-
,u'uI was unveiled to POe'S memory
u. til" llth of November, 1875, and
immense crowd was present. My
-nnaI and gifted friend. Henry r..
Shepherd. Ii. d, a native of Fayette-
WILLIE. y. c., was fortunately selected
Js orator on this mOs memorable oc-
"I+lun. and he made q grand success
he is indeed master of rich ana
la,a.jnating English. | wish could
heard ii, for it was as reported
. success of Il very choice and
engaging kind. I am glad that TWEEN
E-siX years after | may give ONE ac-
count Of it through One who was pres
MI. Eugene l.. Didier, one of
I*uIumore'S best e~QuiDped Iiterati and
.,Il known, wrote of Or. Shepherds
address long years afterwards. In
.h" "book Lover''' for January-T"b-
.u9rE. 1903, you Will find what he
aid. He considered it "a beautiful
Ud scholarly address on the Genius
NT| : JTar l lFNr. (N0 n 1rJ ntn,y # tho ibn2t -
81" added: Il have been q diliSent
tUlent of Poe literature for many
.narS. and. do not hesitate to say hat
DIR. Shepherds address on this OcCa-
is the best tribute that has been
or spoken of the author OF
The Raven. DR.. Shepherd held hat
produced the richest results
hat any poet this (n~ineteenth( CEN
ury has attained. and by reason of his
extraordinary blending of many re-
narkabIe gifts" / do o accept that
l|t"2ether, for Shelby Keats, Cole
idgt and T~ennysOn achieved great
Necesses hat quite riValled those of
But if he had said h Il Poe eX-
rlIel all the poets of the North, L
would give to it a hearty Amen. DR..
alluded to the interesting
that the greatest critics of Eng
ana and France have pronounced
the most conscientious literary
Ftist Of the Nineteenth Century, the
greatest critic of his g and II Of
he most remarkable geniuseS of all
lma.* | believe POe's short stories to
D" the most original and striking of
written before OF since his death
ID any country. His critical ability
conspicuous as any one may see
VIII read the volume of his criti-
'~ms. But he was not probably the
greatest critic of the first half of
ID" Nineteenth Century for in those
Years had lived Hazlitt, S. 7. Cole
II4". Carlyle, Macaulay, and several
'a'r critics of conspicuous abIlltleS.
N"inburne, the master spirit of the
school of English poetry, places
.'" FIRST among the American poets.
mis- is judiciously done. Tennyson
'''l him in decided admiration, but
d' mot think he appreciated him
iLIE. Poe, however, was about tn"
.'@I t" properly recognize the great
'-hEISh poets youthful and aft1uent
1"Ios- That richly endowed living
'.rtman. Andrew Lang, poet, essay
ri. efl'Ir, historian, b~iOgrapher, shows
'> breadth and penetration in ms
very cordial and accurate Judgment
."I trjljcaI understanding of Poe. He
English readers have not been
'' l' understand the ~ndelalSdpit
"i.iej which pursues" his memory IN
"- own country. This intense horror
.a1 hatred is confined to the Northern
.~"t@. and particularly to New Eng
.i Poe greatly angered that sec
'-. by the use of his keen critical
...i'I upon certain of its Slorlfled
'"@rS- He committed h unpar-
''.ao|" sin when he presumed 10
...- Out deficiencies in LOngfelloW
..l some others. He a never been
--.E@n, and many of their writer's
h"ppy when they can pour W.T.
w. upon the name and genius OF roe
i~tn", IN his letter to Poe in his
'-.# EupIe little volume entitled
~ -'I@ to Dead Authors" writes:
"no knew the men. Will not
'I that certain microbes in letters
... .DNlEorS of your wv generation
Adl-tSS your name with thelr
..L'nce, while old women tWlttef
iHilt Incredible and heated SlanQ-
l.. ". PHI" literary papers of New YORK.
r mem persistent animOslty does
~. quite suffice to explain the dis
.... with which many American
''1ard the greatest poet, per
~ Tile greatest 1ifora Yv OpnjIS. OF