Annabel Lee | Mrs. Osgood's "The Life-Voyage" and "Annabel Lee"
In this essay, John E. Reilly disputes the contention of Buford Jones and Kent Ljungquist that Frances Sargent Osgood's poem "The Life-Voyage. A Ballad" served as the model for Poe's "Annabel Lee."
Professors Buford Jones and Kent Ljungquist exercise more ingenuity than care in arguing that there are enough "internal parallels alone" to make Frances Sargent Osgood's "The Life-Voyage. A Ballad" a "probable model" for "Annabel Lee" [see "Poe, Mrs. Osgood, and 'Annabel Lee,'" Studies in the...
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