Excerpt from Pioneers of Southern Literature, Vol. 2 Wold would hardly remain a mem ory but for the fact that he wreaked his hate upon the dead in the shape of a biography of Poe. Neverthe less, he and his successors have failed to mar the continued growth of Mr. Poe's fame. His foibles have been held up to censure, and his faults - he had one which be came his master - have been paraded as ii these would utterly invalidate his claims to genius. This has not always originated from the fact that these self-constituted censors have despised his faults above those of others. The man who does not take his literary values from his cotemporaries must ever appear to them as erratic and perverse, nor can they have any conception of his genius, but in many instances and on the most petty pretexts deny to him any such creative force. The. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.