The Yankee, and Boston Literary Gazette. No. 79, New Series, Nos 1-6.

The Yankee, and Boston Literary Gazette. No. 79, New Series, Nos 1-6.

Boston:

July-December 1829.

The Yankee was founded, edited, and published by John Neal in Portland, Maine. This book includes Neal’s review and excerpt from Poe’s “Heaven” subsequently published as “Fairyland”. Neal remarked “If EAP of Baltimore would but due himself justice, might make a beautiful and perhaps magnificent poem. There is a good deal here to justify such hope” (p.168). Poe later recalled Neal’s remarks as “the very first words of encouragement I ever remember to have heard.”

From the Collection of Bob Macdonald

Edgar Allan Poe; John Neal (editor).

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