The New-York Mirror was a newspaper published in New York City under many variant titles, including The Evening Mirror from 1844 to 1898
It was founded by Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Pope Morris in 1844. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The City of New York Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N P Willis, (January 20 1806 – January 20 1867 was an American Author, Poet and editor Edgar Allan Poe worked for the newspaper as a critic until February 1845. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, In the January 29, 1845 issue, the Mirror was the first to publish Poe's poem "The Raven". Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. Year 1845 ( MDCCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common " The Raven " is a narrative poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845 In his introduction to the poem, Willis called it "unsurpassed in English poetry for subtle conception, masterly ingenuity of versification, and consistent, sustaining of imaginative lift. . . It will stick to the memory of everybody who reads it. "[1] Willis and Morris left the publication in 1846. [2]
After Willis, the newspaper was edited by Hiram Fuller, a noted enemy of Poe. Fuller published attacks on Poe made by Charles Frederick Briggs and Thomas Dunn English in May and June of 1846. Biography Briggs had been a Sailor in Nantucket Massachusetts then a wholesale Grocer. Thomas Dunn English (June 29 1819 - April 1 1902 was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional A letter printed by the Mirror in the July 23, 1846 issue caused Poe to sue the newspaper for libel and defamation of character. [3] Poe won the suit and was awarded $225. 06 as well as an additional $101. 42 in court costs. [4]
References
- ^ Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Harper Perennial, 1991. p. 237
- ^ Auser, Courtland P. Nathaniel P. Willis. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. , 1969. p. 125.
- ^ Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z. Checkmark Books, 2001. p. 81, 83, 91
- ^ Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Harper Perennial, 1991. p. 328
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