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But first let me explain part of my head-line.
"But I, for my poems—What have I? I have all to make .
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
My enemies discover fancy ones.
I went the other day by appointment to visit him at his home in Camden, and after my usual quantum of
A few commonplace words and I settled my mind to business.
I project the future—depend on the future for my audience.
I know perfectly well my path is another one. Most of the poets are impersonal; I am personal.
In my poems all revolves around, radiates from, and concentrates in myself.
It was there that I hastened to seek my old friend Walt Whitman on the first morning after my arrival
when the federal troops occupied the village of Falmouth on the Rappahannock river, the house owned by my
father, where my early life was passed, was used as a hospital, and it was in that house that Walt began
On the day after my call, Walt came to see and dine with me, and I had many hours' conversation with
myself in memory of Poe, which I have obeyed; but not the slightest impulse to make a speech, which, my
Even my own objections draw me to him at last; and those very points, with his sad fate, will make him
That figure of my lurid dream might stand for Edgar Poe, his spirit, his fortunes, and his poems—themselves