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Excerpt from The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 2 of 4: With a Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and Notices of His Life and Genius; Poems and Tales
Tun tri?e lre collected and republished chie?y with aview to M Mmptioo ban the many improvements to which they have been lub jededwhilegoingat random theremidpofthepreu. Immun nlly-niom that what I have written should circulate u I wrote it. It dlmlste at all. In defence of my own taste, nevertheless, it in ia ellmbult upon me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much vein. To the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to he manned have prevented me from making, at my time, any seden J in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field d myehoiee. With me poetryhnbeennotapurpoee, butapulim; and the pedan uhould he held in reverence; they must not - they enn mt at will be excited, with. An eye to the paltry compemtiom. Or the m paltry commendation; of mankind.
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