Author: Frances Sargent Osgood

Cited by

• Lynn Cullen (2)
  • IN: Mrs. Poe (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My first meeting with the poet was at the Astor House... With his proud and beautiful head erect, his dark eyes flashing with the elective light of feeling and of thought, a peculiar, an inimitable blending of sweetness and hauteur in his expression and manner, he greeted me, calmly, gravely, almost coldly; yet with so marked an earnestness that I could not help being deeply impressed by it. From that moment until his death we were friends... I maintained a correspondence with Mr. Poe, in accordance with the earnest entreaties of his wife, who had imagined that my influence over him had a restraining and beneficial effect.
    FROM: letter to R. W. Griswold, (1850), Letter, US
  • IN: Miss. Poe (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My first meeting with the poet was at the Astor House... With his proud and beautiful head erect, his dark eyes flashing wiht the elective light of feeling and of thought, a peculiar, an inimitable blending of sweetness and hauteur in his expression and manner, he greeted me, calmly, gravely, almost coldly; yet with so marked an earnestness that I could not help being deeply impreesed by it. From that moment until his death we were friends... I maintained a correspindence with Mr. Poe, in accordance with the earnest entreaties of his wife, who imagined that my influence over him had a restraining and beneficial effect.
    FROM: letter to R.W. Griswold, (1850), NULL, US