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    The Southern Literary Messenger was a periodical published in Richmond, Virginia, from August 1834 to June 1864, and from 1939 to 1945. Each issue carried...
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    of Verse" (October 1848 – Southern Literary Messenger) "The Poetic Principle" (December 1848 – Southern Literary Messenger) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon...
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  • (1788–1843) was an American printer and publisher who founded the Southern Literary Messenger. He was born in Williamsburg, Virginia. He became an apprentice...
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  • text of the Pittsylvania agreement was later printed in the Southern Literary Messenger (2 [May 1836]: 389). However, the Pittsylvania County alliance...
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  • Sparhawk became acquainted with James E. Heath, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. His first contribution to the journal, entitled "A Tale of a...
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    The City in the Sea (category Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger)
    common elements from Gothic fiction. The poem appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger, The American Review, the Broadway Journal, as well as in the...
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  • published simply as "Ballad" in the January 1837 edition of the Southern Literary Messenger, it was later retitled as "Bridal Ballad" when it was printed...
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  • Morella (short story) (category Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger)
    "Morella" was first published in the April 1835 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger, and a revised version was re-printed in the November 1839 issue...
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    Berenice (short story) (category Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger)
    story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story is narrated by Egaeus, who is preparing to...
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    The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (category Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger)
    Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger as "Hans Phaall -- A Tale", intended by Poe to be a hoax. The...
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    Turk was observed by Edgar Allan Poe, who was writing for the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe's essay "Maelzel's Chess Player" was published in April...
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    appeared, without attribution, as an item of trivia in the 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, a periodical to which Poe contributed. It does not appear, however...
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    The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (category Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger)
    of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket were first published in the Southern Literary Messenger, though never completed. The full novel was published in July...
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    behind and moved to Richmond, Virginia to take a job at the Southern Literary Messenger. While Poe was away from Baltimore, another cousin, Neilson Poe...
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    It was subsequently reprinted in the March 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. The final, revised version appeared in the 1845 collection The...
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    Maelzel's Chess Player (category Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger)
    essay was originally published in the April 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe's essay asserts that Maelzel's troupe of automata had made...
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    White, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. In 1835, Poe became assistant editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, but White discharged...
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    regard Poe as a Southern author—he was raised in Richmond, attended the University of Virginia, and edited the Southern Literary Messenger from 1835 to 1837...
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    the New-York Daily Tribune. Thompson had it published in the Southern Literary Messenger in November 1849. "Annabel Lee" was an inspiration for Vladimir...
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    Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review in reference to Thoman Hunt's Panthea, or the Spirit of Nature. In 1859 the Southern Literary Messenger referred to Balzac's...
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  • slaves. Edgar Allan Poe published a critical review of it in Southern Literary Messenger in 1836. Though they had studied together at the University of...
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    Politian (play) (category Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger)
    16th-century Rome. Poe wrote the play during his time with the Southern Literary Messenger and during some personal crises. The first installment of Politian...
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    Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (category Writers of American Southern literature)
    academic spokesman for states' rights and Southern unity. He wrote frequently for the Southern Literary Messenger and other periodicals, and carried on an...
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    George Frederick. "A review of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin". Southern Literary Messenger 19.6 (June 1853): 321–330. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature...
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  • Eastern history. In 1835 it was reviewed by Edgar Allan Poe of the Southern Literary Messenger. The book begins with an introduction that explains the ways...
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    flag. In January 1862, George William Bagby, writing for the Southern Literary Messenger, wrote that many Confederates disliked the flag. "Everybody wants...
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    1860). "The Difference of Race Between the Northern and Southern People". Southern Literary Messenger. 30 (6): 407. McPherson, James M. (1999). "Was Blood...
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  • Imitation of the German" was added when it was republished in the Southern Literary Messenger in January 1836, likely to capitalize on the popular interest...
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  • ed. (January 1844). "Contributors to the Southern Literary Messenger". Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review. Vol. 10. T.W. White. p. 64....
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    Catharine Springs, Canada. In the January 1837 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe reviewed Reynolds' "Address, on the Subject...
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