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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things whichescape those who dream only by night. In their gray visionsthey obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, tofind they have been upon the verge of the great secret."
—Edgar Allan Poe, in "Eleanora"
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
THE BELL BOOK AND STATIONERY COMPANY
1909
COPYRIGHT 1909
BY MARY NEWTON STANARD
THE HERMITAGE PRESS
BINDERY OF L.H. JENKINS
RICHMOND, VA.
TO THE READER
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
This study of Edgar Allan Poe, poet and man, is simply an attempt tomake something like a finished picture of the shadowy sketch thebiographers, hampered by the limitations of