POE'S LITERARY HISTORY X. POE AS A STORY-WRITER XI.

" Here, too, is an extract from a letter from Poe to Mr. Kennedy: "Your invitation to dinner has wounded me to the quick.

But the excellences and limitations of Poe in any one part of his work were his limitations and excellences in all.

Greeley wrote back that he had just one autograph of Poe among his papers; it was attached to a note for fifty dollars, and Greeley's own signature was across the back.

He translated Poe into French, and was partly responsible for Poe's immense vogue in France.

It is probable that Stevenson found them first not in the original, but in reading the tales of Poe, for the "two lines of French verse" that "haunted" Stevenson are quoted by Poe at the beginning of one of his most famous pieces, The Fall of the House of Usher, where, however, the third, and not the first person is used: "Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne."

It was his own opinion, however, that these early poems contained more real poetic imagination than his later successes, and it is perhaps as well that we should begin our study of Poe with some of the first fruits of his genius.