"Edgar Allan Poe," in American Catholic Quarterly Review,
Vol. 16, No. 64, October 1891, pp. 818-33.
The version of Poe's life that is related in this source appears to be tainted by the misinformation that was spread by Poe's biographer Rufus Griswold. It is es pecially unusual that this source portrays Poe's stepfather, John Allan, as a patient, suffering benefactor, although most other sources paint Allan as a grim tyrant.
Suchard, Alan, American Poetry: The Puritans Through
Walt Whitman, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.
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