Works of Edgar Allan Poe

- N. P. Willis - Letters from under a Bridge.

He puts us in mind of no less a writer than Shelley.

- John Neal.

'Bon-Bon,' by Mr. Poe, is equal to anything Theodore Hook ever wrote.

- M. M. Noah.

Mr. Poe's 'M.S. found in a bottle' is one of the most singularly ingenious and imaginative things I ever remember to have read. Discovery is there analyzed and spiritualized in a strain of allegory which need not fear comparison with Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner.'

- J. F. Otis.

- That powerful pen, whose versatile and brilliant creations I have so often admired.

- Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.

Mr. Poe possesses an extraordinary faculty. He paints the palpable obscure with strange power, throwing over his pictures a sombre gloom which is appalling. The images are dim, but distinct; shadowy but well-defined. The outline indeed is all we see; but there they stand, shrouded in darkness, and fright us with the mystery which defies farther scrutiny.. His genius, as well as private history, puts us in mind of that of Coleridge.

- Judge Beverly Tucker (of Va.,) author of 'George Balcombe.'

There can be but one opinion in regard to the force and beauty of his style.. He discovers a superior capacity and a highly cultivated taste.. A gentleman of fine endowments, possessing a taste classical and refined, an imagination affluent and splendid, and withal a singular capacity for minute and mathematical detail.. We always predicted that he would reach a high grade in American literature.. 'Morella' will unquestionably prove that Mr. Poe has great powers of imagination, and a command of language never surpassed. We doubt if anything in the same style can be cited which contains more terrific beauty than this tale.

- James E. Heath (of Va.), author of 'Edge-Hill' and Editor of the S. Lit. Messenger.

Mr. Poe is decidedly the best of all our young writers - I don't know but that I may say, of all our old ones.

- J. K. Paulding.

- Facile princeps.

- Professor Charles Anthon.

We must say that we derive no small enjoyment from a delineation like this. We like to see the evidences of study and thought, as well as of inspiration, in the design, and of careful and elaborate handling in the execution, as well as of grand and striking effect in the tout ensemble. The 'Fall of the House of Usher' is what we denominate a stern and sombre, but at the same time a noble and imposing picture, such as can be drawn only by a master-hand. Such things are not produced by your slip-shod amateurs in composition.

- Phil. Weekly Messenger (Professor John Frost).

'William Wilson,' by Mr. Poe, reminds us of Godwin and Brockden Brown. The writer is a kindred spirit of theirs in his style of art. He paints with sombre Rembrandt-like tints, and there is great force and vigor of conception in whatever he produces.

- Phil. Weekly Messenger (Professor Frost).

There is also a sketch of much power and peculiar interest, entitled 'The House of Usher' which cannot fail to attract attention -.. a remarkable specimen of a style of writing which possesses many attractions for those who love to dwell upon the terrible.

- Phil. Pennsylvanian (Jos. C. Neal).

Mr. Poe's story of 'The House of Usher' would have been considered a chef d'oevre if it had appeared in the pages of Blackwood.

- N. Y. Evening Star.

'Lionizing' by Mr. Poe is an inimitable piece of wit and satire; and the man must be far gone in a melancholic humor whose risibility is not moved by this tale.

- S. Lit. Messenger (E. Vernon Sparhawk).

Mr. Poe's 'Hans Phaall' will add much to his reputation as an imaginative writer. The story is a long one, but will appear short to the reader, whom it bears along with irresistible interest through a region of which of all others we know least, but which his fancy has invested with peculiar charms.

- Idem.

The author of the 'Lunar Hoax' is indebted to the 'Hans Phaall' of Mr. Poe for the conception and in a great measure for the execution of his discoveries.

- Norfolk Herald.

The 'Due de L'Omelette' by Edgar A. Poe, is one of those light, spirited, and fantastic inventions of which we have had specimens before in the Messenger, betokening a fertility of imagination and power of execution, that would, under a sustained effort, produce creations of an enduring character.

- Baltimore American (Geo. H. Calvert).

The 'Due de L'Omelette' is one of the best things of the kind we have ever read. Mr. Poe has great powers, and every line tells in all he writes. He is no spinner of long yarns, but chooses his subject, whimsically perhaps, but originally, and treats it in a manner peculiarly his own.

- National Intelligencer (J. F. Otis).

Of the lighter contributions - of the diamonds which sparkle beside the more sombre gems, commend us, thou spirit of eccentricity, forever and a day, to 'The Duc de L'Omelette,' - the best thing of the kind we ever have read or ever expect to read.

- Petersburgh (Va.) Constellation (H. Haines).

'The Tale of Jerusalem,' is one of those felicitous hits which are the forte of Edgar A. Poe.

- Baltimore Gazette.

We seldom meet with more boldness in the development of intellectual capacity, or more vividness in description than we find in the productions of Edgar Allan Poe.

- Brownsville (Pa.) Observer.

- Equally ripe in graphic humor and various lore.

- Charleston Courier.

- An uniquely original vein of imagination, and of humorous delicate satire.

- S. L. Messenger.

The story of 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' from the pen of Mr. Poe, is very interesting - a well told tale.

- Phil. U. S. Gazette (Jos. R. Chandler).

Many of these tales are of a very high order of merit, and have been admired wherever they have been perused by men of mind. Mr. Poe