Poe, Edgar Allan | Poe on Poe
Poe on Poe
Dividing the world of mind into its three most immediately obvious distinctions, we have the Pure Intellect, Taste, and the Moral Sense.... Just as the Intellect concerns itself with Truth, so Taste informs us of the Beautiful while the Moral Sense is regardful of Duty. Of this latter, while Conscience teaches the obligation, and Reason the expediency, Taste contents herself with displaying the charms:—waging war upon Vice solely on the ground of her deformity—her disproportion—her animosity to the fitting, to the appropriate, to the harmonious—in a word, to Beauty.
Poe began his editorial career with the Messenger in 1835. His contribution established the paper as the major critical journal of the South, and his stories soon became popular throughout the country. His role as America's first great critic, having no connection to British criticism or publishers in the U.S., is often overlooked. "The...
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