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E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
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"Last Update: Nov. 26, 1999
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Poe's Criticisms
[Text: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of The Complete Poetical Works of W.
C. Bryant , from Godey's Lady's Book , April 1846, pp. 182-186.]
[page 182:]
LITERARY CRITICISM.
BY EDGAR A. POE.
[column 1:]
COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Illustrated edition.
Mr. Bryant's position in the poetical world is, perhaps,
better settled than that of any American. There is less difference of opinion
about his rank; but, as usual, the agreement is more decided in private
literary circles than in what appears to be the public expression of sentiment
as gleaned from the press. I may as well observe here, too, that this coincidence
of opinion in private circles is in all cases very noticeable when compared
with the discrepancy of the apparent public opinion. In private it is quite
a rare thing to find any strongly-marked disagreement — I mean, of course,
about mere autorial merit. The author accustomed to seclusion, and mingling
for the first time freely with the literary people about him, is invariably
startled and delighted to find that the decisions of his own unbiased judgment
— decisions to which he has refrained from giving voice on account of their
broad contradiction to the decision of the press — are sustained and considered
quite as matters of course by almost every person with whom he converses.
The fact is, that when brought face to face with each other we are constrained
to a certain amount of honesty by the sheer trouble it causes us to mould
the countenance to a lie. We put on paper with a grave air what we could
not for our lives assert personally to a friend without either blushing
or laughing outright. That the opinion of the press is not an honest opinion,
that necessarily it is impossible that it should "
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