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By Eric Emin Wood
March 17, 2009
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In honour of St. Patrick’s Day…

The author as drunken lout is hardly groundbreaking, but it’s rare to unearth the sort of apology Edgar Allen Poe offered his publishers J. and H.G. Langley for his mint julep-fuelled behaviour in 1842:

Will you be so kind enough to put the best possible interpretation upon my behavior while in N-York? You must have conceived a queer idea of me – but the simple truth is that Wallace would insist upon the juleps, and I knew not what I was either doing or saying.

Naturally the apology was enclosed in a pitch – for an article on gardening.

  • http://poecalendar.blogspot.com Rob V.

    You might want to do a quick spell-check on the author’s name. I wrote the post at “http://poecalendar.blogspot.com/2009/02/reclaiming-poes-name.html” to help you out. By the way, Poe was always apologetic for his drinking. As a recovering alcoholic, he always did his best to avoid drinking (18 months at one stretch, before meetings and 12 steps) and, when he fell off the wagon, he was none too proud.

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