...give any continuous effort to anything — to be consistent in anything. My life has been ivhim — impulse — passion — a longing for solitude —...things present, in an earnest desire for the future." Mrs. Whitman, in her introductory letter to Didier's Life of Poe, says that " his proud reserve, his...

...Lowell at the time when he was thinking he had found in the New England poet a congenial spirit : " I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability...things present, in an earnest desire for the future." Mrs. Whitman, in her introductory letter to Didier's Life of Poe, says that " his proud reserve, his...

...the mutability and evanescence of temporal things to give any continuous effort to anything — to he consistent in anything. My life has been whim —...things present, in an earnest desire for the future." Mrs. Whitman, in her introductory letter to Didier's Life of Poe, says that "his proud reserve, his...

...continuous effort to anything — to be consistent in anything. My life has been a whim — an impulse — a passion — a longing for solitude — a scorn of...things present in an earnest desire for the future. I am profoundly excited by music and by some poems — those of Tennyson especially — whom with Keats,...

...always begging for more; and drifted from one friend and one purpose to another yet he once said: " My life has been whim — impulse — passion —...things present, in an earnest desire for the future." His idolised Virginia was the inspiration of his "Annabel Lee"; and of " Eulalie "— the only poem...

...considered : his drctum, which appears early and late in his criticism, '"My life has been wliim — impulse — passion — a longing for solitude —...things present in an earnest desire for the future." (From Poe's " spiritual autobiography," Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, n, 93.) that " a species...

...continuous effort to anything — to be consistent in anything. My life has been a whim — an impulse — a passion — a longing for solitude — a scorn of...things present in an earnest desire for the future. I am profoundly excited by music and by some poems — those of Tennyson especially — whom with Keats,...

...habitations. Death was transformation. "At death the worm is the butterfly." Personally, Poe noted: "My life has been whim — impulse — passion —...things present, in an earnest desire for the future." He wrote that he was " profoundly excited by music," which " is the perfection of soul, or idea of...

..."estimate of my life"— and, from what I have already said, you will see that I have none to give. I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability...things present, in an earnest desire for the future. Believe me your true friend. EAPoe. From a letter to Evert A. Duyckinck Thursday Morning— 13th. [Nov....

...matter of reference to what always ends up being an already culturally mediated American nature; but as "a longing for solitude— a scorn of all things present, in an earnest desire for the future" (Poe 1966, 22-23). 19 IV One can always argue that Poe's reactionary, antebellum political views undermine...