Poe's Quarrel with Boston Writers

Edgar Allan Poe
Handwritten notes for "The Rationale of Verse"
Griswold Fragment, 18

In these notes Poe mocks Frogpondian poets:

... even when we let these modern hexameters go, as Greek, and merely hold them fast in their proper character of Longfellowian, or Feltonian, or Frogpondian, we must still condemn them as having been committed in a radical misconception of the philosophy of verse.

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