{"id":1020,"date":"2008-08-20T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T20:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.georgethomasclark.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2010-06-11T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:59:00","slug":"poe-at-the-gentleman%e2%80%99s-magazine-%e2%80%93-part-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/poe-at-the-gentleman%e2%80%99s-magazine-%e2%80%93-part-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe at the Gentleman\u2019s Magazine \u2013 Part 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Allan Poe, despite working for <em>Burton\u2019s Gentleman\u2019s Magazine,<\/em> seemed not to understand the implication of my being William E. Burton: I paid ten dollars a week, more than sufficient compensation starting in June 1839, and expected him to be a dutiful and deferential editorial assistant.\u00a0 I realized many readers considered Poe brilliant, particularly after I that September published \u201cThe Fall of the House of Usher\u201d.\u00a0 But I presided over a business that monthly squeezed my financial assets, and the works of Mr. Poe did nothing to alleviate my discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the finest writer yet born on this continent,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is decidedly unproven,\u201d I said.\u00a0 \u201cFurthermore, don\u2019t imply I alone have concerns about your pecuniary worth.\u00a0 Lea and Blanchard, your esteemed publisher, have just this week informed you, and me as well, that they\u2019ll only publish <em>Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque <\/em>if you agree to accept no payment, even in the implausible event all books are sold, and instead satisfy yourself with twenty complimentary copies.\u00a0 That\u2019s rather ignominious, I must say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ignominy resides in your reluctance to offer incisive literary reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI explained before you began, indeed I rebuked you, that I will not permit attacks on your fellow writers in the morbid manner you\u2019ve elsewhere employed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I left Philadelphia to be a leading comedic figure in the theater, Poe stumbled about, calling me a louse for deserting my first wife in England, a bigamist for marrying another in the United   States, and a reprobate for maintaining another lady. \u00a0I bothered not to inform Poe I\u2019d eventually divorced my first wife.\u00a0 I instead spoke to him thusly: \u201cThis article is much too obscure, don\u2019t you think?\u00a0 We can\u2019t publish it but do have some short assignments for you.\u00a0 Brevity is essential, as I\u2019m paying for the paper.\u00a0 So, you have some marvelous new ideas?\u00a0 What are they?\u00a0 Yes, yes.\u00a0 That means I heard you.\u00a0 No, you can\u2019t use them.\u00a0 Not in my publication.\u00a0 Perhaps you can sell them elsewhere, since you\u2019re an unprecedentedly talented fellow.\u00a0 Will you be in tomorrow?\u00a0 I pray one of your biweekly fevers won\u2019t strike again tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June 1840 I virtually hurled Poe out the door: the misanthrope had been plotting to start his own rival magazine.\u00a0 Then he complained upon learning I\u2019d been trying to sell <em>Burton<\/em><em>\u2019s Gentleman\u2019s Magazine.<\/em> That proprietary privilege I had no obligation to discuss with a servant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Allan Poe, despite working for Burton\u2019s Gentleman\u2019s Magazine, seemed not to understand the implication of my being William E. 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