Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs
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"Upon Poe’s death, critic Rufus Griswold wrote an obituary for the New York Tribune of surprising meanness. Griswold claimed that Poe “had few or no friends” and that “few will be grieved” by his passing—perhaps an act of revenge for Poe’s own cruelties toward Griswold as a rival critic. Poe once dismissed him as a “toady” destined to “sink into oblivion.”
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brian 6 years, 5 months ago
The Griswold feud is the subject of one of my all time favorite episodes of Drunk History.
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