Poe's Quarrel with Boston Writers

Edgar Allan Poe
Review of Longfellow's Hyperion
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, October 1839
[Full text]

Works like this of Professor Longfellow's, are the triumphs of Tom O'Bedlam, and the grief of all true criticism. They are potent in unsettling the popular faith in Art – a faith which, at no day more than the present, needed the support of men of letters.

Boston Public Library, Research Library Collection