Linking Edgar Allan Poe To The

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much of it belonging in the very highest rank of imaginative prose; but his books had never sold, and the income from his tales and other papers in the magazines when he was not attached to a magazine had never suffice to keep the wolf from the door." (Woodberry 2: 72)
Hard times fell on Poe like raindrops falling onto the ground. The money needed to sustain his day to day needs proved insufficient. He had written many works in ten years and. Although his works were abundant, money wasn't. In Short, Poe had a hard time selling his works and was poorly paid. "'A host of small troubles growing from the one trouble of poverty….'" (Woodberry 2: 103)
"'You speak of "estimate of my life," --- and, from what I have already said, you will see that I have none to give.'" (Woodberry 2: 93) His regard for himself was small. In direct contrast was his regard for his works. "'I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability and evanescence of temporal things to give any ...

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