134THE NORMAL ADVANCEEdgar Allan Poe-In certain foreign lands Edgar Allan Poehas long since come into his own, but Americans have been too b...
at Richmond, Virginia—here he spenthis childhood
at the University of Virginia,at Charlottesville, where the poet was a student
at Providence, Rhode Island—here lived,and was wooed by Poe, Mrs. Sarah HelenWhitman, also a poet
in this city—Poe livedhis last years here
and at Baltimore, where heleft the world that had held an overflowingcup of sadness eyer to his lips.The New York exercises were held a...