Abstract
In 1841 Poe met an influential editor named Rufus W. Griswold, a clergyman who had drifted into editorial work in New York. He seems to have been something of a literary charlatan and had acquired a reputation for himself as an editor and author. Poe was unwise enough to appoint Griswold as his literary executor, not realising that Griswold in fact hated him.
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© 1981 J. R. Hammond
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Hammond, J.R. (1981). Poe’s Literary Reputation. In: An Edgar Allan Poe Companion. Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05025-3_2
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