Snodgrass believed he was so inebriated that he needed to be hospitalized. Poe's health did not improve. He went in and out of consciousness for the following few days. When he was awake, he would yell odd sentences and call himself "Reynolds!" because that was the name of the man who had accused him of plagiarism. Poe had met John Henry Reynolds while they were both students at the University of Virginia. In 1829, Reynolds published a novel entitled Alton Locke: A Tale of the Alleghanys, which included portions of poems by Edgar Allan Poe. The two men never reconciled their differences, but instead referred to each other obliquely through their friends. When Snodgrass asked Poe why he called himself Reynolds, the poet replied: "Because Reynolds has plagiarized my poem!"