WorkEdgar Allan Poe

The Literati of New York City

The Literati of New York City (Godey's Lady's Book, 1846) Inferred

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) · Godey's Lady's Book, 1846

InferredHudspeth identified this as Poe's fourth Literati essay published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1846

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Documented 1849

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1846

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Letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“Those fragments expressed the almost universal feeling towards Poe; several women loved him... He said in a sketch he published of me that he thought me capable of great affection.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Hudspeth identified this as Poe's fourth Literati essay published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1846