item: #1 of 4 id: 11249 author: Cody, Sherwin title: Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans date: None words: 44056 flesch: 76 summary: Of course he was not a philosopher; but he wrote some things in that book which were destined afterward to be accepted by such great men as Darwin and Huxley and many others. As we slowly floated along, I lay on the deck and watched them through a long summer's day, undergoing a thousand mutations under the magical effects of atmosphere; sometimes seeming to approach, at other times to recede; now almost melting into hazy distance, now burnished by the hazy sun, until, in the evening, they printed themselves against the glowing sky in the deep purple of an Italian landscape. keywords: able; academy; account; agnew; alhambra; allan; ambition; american; amusing; annabel; attention; author; bad; baltimore; bayard; beautiful; beauty; beginning; bells; best; biglow; black; board; boat; book; boston; boy; breeches; bright; brother; bryant; business; care; chapter; character; charles; child; childhood; city; clear; clemm; college; common; company; complete; country; course; court; dark; day; days; deal; dear; death; deep; delight; description; detective; dickens; diedrich; dollars; doubt; dream; dutch; early; earth; edgar; editor; effect; elmwood; engaged; england; english; europe; evening; experiences; eyes; face; fact; fall; fame; family; famous; father; favorite; fear; fer; fine; following; fond; foot; form; fortune; free; french; friend; friendship; garden; general; genius; gentleman; german; girl; god; gold; good; graham; great; greatest; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; heaven; high; history; home; hope; hosea; house; hudson; human; idea; iii; illustration; interesting; introduction; irving; james; john; journal; journey; kind; knickerbocker; known; lady; large; later; latin; law; lay; learned; leave; lee; left; letter; life; like; lines; literary; literature; little; live; liverpool; living; london; long; longer; longfellow; look; love; lowell; magazine; making; man; manner; married; mary; master; means; men; mind; minister; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; murray; music; natural; nature; near; new; new york; night; northern; notes; number; office; old; ordinary; original; paper; parson; passage; pay; people; perfect; periodical; philadelphia; piece; place; poe; poem; poetic; poetry; poets; point; poor; popular; possible; post; president; pretty; proud; publication; publisher; quiet; raven; reader; reading; real; rest; return; richmond; rip; river; robinson; room; russell; saturday; school; scott; sea; second; sense; series; set; short; simple; sir; sitting; sketch; sky; small; snow; society; sorrow; soul; southern; spain; spirit; square; states; stories; story; strange; study; subject; success; summer; sun; sweet; tales; taylor; thee; things; thought; time; town; travel; traveler; tribune; trip; true; truth; united; vain; van; verse; view; vii; viii; village; virginia; visit; volume; vote; voyage; war; washington; way; week; west; white; wife; wilbur; wind; windows; winkle; wish; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; writer; writing; yankee; years; york; young; youth cache: 11249.txt plain text: 11249.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 17389 author: Stanard, Mary Newton title: The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe date: None words: 100930 flesch: 77 summary: The denizens of old Stoke-Newington gazed upon this prosperous trio with frank curiosity; the reader has already recognized John Allan and his wife, Frances, and little Edgar Poe--their adopted child. As a child, she had played with Mr. Allan's father on their native heath, in Ayrshire, and to her, little Edgar was always her ain wee laddie. keywords: absence; acquaintance; admiration; admired; adopted; afternoon; afterward; air; allan; american; ancient; angels; answer; appearance; arms; attention; author; baby; baltimore; bard; bare; battle; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; believe; bell; bent; best; big; billy; birds; bitterness; black; blood; blue; boarding; body; book; bore; boston; bowed; boy; boys; brain; break; breast; breath; brief; bright; brilliant; broken; brother; brow; burst; business; busy; cap; care; case; certain; chair; chamber; change; chapter; character; charm; charming; cheeks; chief; child; children; church; churchyard; circle; city; class; clear; clemm; closed; clouds; cold; colored; comfort; coming; common; company; conscience; conscious; contempt; conversation; corner; cottage; country; course; cousin; creature; cup; cut; dark; darling; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; decided; deep; delight; delighted; desire; desk; despair; devils; different; dignity; dim; dinner; distinguished; dollars; door; drawing; dreamer; dreams; dress; early; earth; easy; eddie; edgar; edgar allan; edgar goodfellow; edgar poe; editor; effort; england; english; evening; exhilaration; expression; exquisite; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fall; fallen; fame; familiar; family; fancy; far; fast; fate; father; favorite; fear; features; feel; feeling; feet; fever; figure; fingers; fire; floor; flowers; following; foot; fordham; form; fortune; foster; frances; freedom; frequent; fresh; friends; friendship; furtive; future; garden; gate; gaze; genius; gentle; gentleman; gibs; gift; girl; glad; glowing; god; golden; good; goodfellow; gracious; graham; grass; grave; great; green; grey; griswold; guest; half; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; head; health; heart; heartsease; heaven; helen; high; highest; hill; history; hold; home; honor; hope; host; hot; hour; house; human; husband; idea; illness; imagination; impulse; influence; intellectual; interest; invisible; jack; john; joy; keen; keeping; kennedy; kind; kindly; kiss; known; ladies; lady; lamp; lap; large; later; laugh; leave; left; length; letter; life; ligeia; like; lines; lips; literary; literature; little; little boy; little edgar; little mother; little virginia; live; living; loneliness; long; longer; look; looking; lost; love; lovely; magazine; maiden; making; mammy; man; manner; mansion; manuscript; marked; marriage; master; mean; meet; meeting; melancholy; memory; mental; mention; mere; merry; messenger; mind; miss; mistress; modest; moment; money; mood; moon; moonlight; morning; mother; moving; mrs; muddie; music; myra; mystery; narrow; natural; nature; near; neat; need; new; newington; news; night; note; number; nurse; odors; office; old; ones; open; opening; opinion; outside; page; pain; pale; paper; parents; party; passion; past; pay; people; perfect; philadelphia; physical; picture; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; poem; poet; poetic; poetry; point; poison; poor; porch; possible; post; power; praise; presence; present; pressed; pretty; prominent; promise; proud; public; pure; purity; question; quick; quiet; rainbow; rare; raven; read; reading; real; reason; regard; regular; relief; reply; reputation; rest; result; return; richmond; ringlets; river; rob; romantic; roof; room; rose; rufus; sacred; sad; satisfaction; saturday; school; seat; second; secret; seek; self; sense; set; shadow; shop; short; shoulders; silence; silent; silver; simple; singing; single; sissy; sitting; sky; sleep; slight; small; smile; snow; society; soft; solemn; solitude; son; song; sorrow; soul; sound; southern; speech; spell; spirit; spite; spoken; spot; spring; stanard; standing; star; stately; step; stoke; stories; story; strange; stream; streets; strength; strong; success; sudden; summer; sunday; sunshine; supper; sweet; sympathy; table; talent; tales; talk; tall; taste; tender; terrible; terror; things; thomas; thought; time; tomb; touch; town; trees; trembling; true; truth; uncle; university; vain; valley; view; virginia; vision; visitor; voice; wall; want; warm; warmth; waters; way; weakness; welcome; west; whisper; white; wide; wife; wild; window; wings; winter; wish; woman; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worship; worth; writing; wrong; years; york; young; young edgar; youth cache: 17389.txt plain text: 17389.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 23234 author: Dargan, Olive Tilford title: Semiramis, and Other Plays date: None words: 59601 flesch: 100 summary: I will say a few things to Helen about meeting Mr. Poe in Europe--and--you know-- Mrs. Tru. Mrs. Del. I told you about meeting Mr. Poe last summer in Normandy. keywords: 1st; act; angel; annie; answer; arms; artavan; asef; aseffa; ask; assyria; battle; baz; bazaine; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beg; better; black; blood; body; bony; book; bosom; boy; brave; breast; bridge; brother; car; carlotta; cause; centre; char; chariot; charles; child; church; city; clemm; cold; come; cottage; count; country; cousin; crown; cry; curtain; dark; darling; dat; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; del; die; door; dost; doubt; dream; drops; dupin; dying; earth; edgar; emperor; empire; empress; enter; ere; exeunt; exit; eyes; face; fair; fall; false; far; farewell; father; fear; feet; fire; fly; food; fool; foot; france; free; friend; general; girls; glad; glory; god; gods; gone; good; great; guards; hail; hand; happy; head; heart; heaven; hel; helen; hell; help; home; honor; hope; hour; house; husak; husband; ignacio; juarez; khos; khosrove; king; kisses; know; lab; lady; land; law; lead; leave; left; lies; life; like; lips; little; live; long; looks; lop; lopez; lord; lost; lou; love; low; madam; majesty; mamma; man; mar; marquez; mars; max; maximilian; men; menones; mexico; mighty; mind; miramar; miramon; moment; morning; morrow; mortal; mother; mrs; napoleon; nay; near; need; new; news; night; nin; nineveh; ninus; noble; oath; officer; old; open; paper; pardon; pass; peace; people; pity; poe; poor; power; pray; princess; promise; proud; queen; rafael; reach; read; rear; rest; rises; roger; room; rose; royal; safe; salm; save; scene; sea; sem; semiramis; set; sharp; sick; silence; silent; sir; sire; sister; sleep; smile; soft; sol; sola; soldiers; son; song; soul; spare; spirit; stars; steps; strange; strength; sumbat; sun; sure; sweet; table; talk; tears; tent; thee; things; think; thou; thou'rt; thought; throne; thy; time; tis; tongue; touch; trev; troops; true; trust; truth; twas; vassin; vir; virginia; voice; war; way; wear; welcome; wha; wife; wilt; window; wine; wish; woman; word; work; wrong; zurie cache: 23234.txt plain text: 23234.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 33930 author: Weiss, Susan Archer Talley title: The Home Life of Poe date: None words: 45372 flesch: 69 summary: I can recall Mrs. Young as a large, fair woman with golden hair; but my most distinct recollection is of Mrs. Poe. Mr. and Mrs. Poe had taken lodgings in this garret with a little boy and girl and an old Welsh nurse. keywords: a. poe; account; acquaintance; affairs; affectionate; age; allan; answer; appearance; article; association; attention; author; away; baltimore; beautiful; bed; best; biographers; bird; black; boarding; book; boy; boys; bright; brilliant; brother; business; care; carter; case; certain; chapter; character; charge; child; children; church; city; clarke; clear; clemm; comfort; companions; company; condition; corner; cottage; country; course; cousin; dark; daughter; day; days; deal; death; delighted; desire; devoted; dignified; disposition; dissipation; dollars; door; dream; duncan; early; eddie; edgar; edgar poe; editor; effect; employment; engagement; evening; evident; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; floor; following; fond; fordham; friends; garden; general; gentleman; gill; girl; good; gossip; graham; grave; great; ground; habits; hair; half; handsome; happy; head; health; heart; high; home; hour; house; husband; idea; ill; illness; influence; interest; john; june; kind; kindly; known; ladies; lady; large; late; law; leave; lecture; left; length; letter; life; like; lines; literary; little; living; lodge; long; looking; lost; love; mackenzie; magazine; main; making; man; manner; manuscript; marriage; married; matter; means; measure; men; mind; miss; miss poe; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; nature; near; necessary; neighbors; new; night; noted; notice; obscure; occasion; october; office; old; opinion; osgood; paper; parlor; past; people; personal; persons; pet; philadelphia; picture; place; poe; poem; poet; poetic; point; poor; poverty; practical; presence; present; pretty; previous; pride; providence; public; quiet; raven; reading; ready; real; reason; regard; relatives; reminiscences; reputation; return; richmond; river; room; rosalie; rosalie poe; rose; saying; school; schoolboy; schoolmates; set; shelton; shew; shubert; sick; sister; small; snodgrass; sober; social; society; son; soul; speak; spirits; stanard; state; story; street; strong; stylus; subject; success; summer; sweet; table; theatre; things; thomas; thought; time; time poe; true; truth; university; usual; valentine; virginia; visit; visitor; walk; washington; water; way; weakness; weeks; west; white; whitman; widow; wife; wine; woman; word; work; writing; years; york; young; youth cache: 33930.txt plain text: 33930.txt