| | 1 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection:
Frances Sargent Osgood / Edgar Allan Poe  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Mrs Osgood,
for the last three or four years, has been rapidly attain-
ing distinction; and this, evidently, with no effort at attaining it. She seems,
in fact, to have no object in view beyond that of giving voice to the fancies
or the feelings of the moment. "Necessity", says the proverb, "is the mother of
Invention"; and the invention of
Mrs O.
,
at least, springs plainly from ne-
cessity — from the necessity of invention.
Not to write poetry — not to act it,
think it, dream it, and be it, is entirely out of her power. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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