Searching For Poe In Scotland
 
 

ESSENTIAL READING FOR AN ORIENTATION OF OUR RESEARCH:
 Hervey Allen's, Israfel, 1934 ed., Ch. 5.  All biographies of Edgar Allan Poe since have discounted the value of researching a connection with Scotland and Poe.  The great and thorough Professor Mabbott has communicated with Professor Hogg when both were still alive, and we quote their discourse in our own manuscript. 


All books about Poe are available on the Internet (i. e., abebooks, etc.).  Brill has since discovered that eBay has a thorough search of titles of materials on and about Edgar Allan Poe, for those who can afford bidding for First Edition publications in which Poe's work appeared.


This site is under periodic change and editing by Bob Brill.

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The 2009, 10, and 11 editions of the Georgian Tech U. Journal in which my essays have been published

          Seen above are the covers of the 2009 Journal of NEWSLETTERS of Academy of Education Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, their 2010 International Conference Proceedings as well as the cover for the Journal's edition of 2011, just available.  This academic journal covers a broad spectrum of scholarly disciplines.  This university focuses upon Mathematics and Sciences; however, as a university, it has a broad, and complete offering of the Humanities and Liberal Arts.  My submissions were under their School of Foreign Languages, Department of English.  Our friend from the 2006 conference at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece, Professor Tamar Mabuke, Ph. D., Philology, invited our attendance to her university's first international conference on, "Verbal Communication Techniques."  
            I continue to inform those who visit my pages that the Russians who invaded the Republic of Georgia just before the first international conference  of the Georgian Technical University have only re-enforced their hold on that invasion, and there has been absolutely no response from the so-called "intellectual community."  On the other hand, the critics of our American response to the 9-11 attack on the buildings on our East Coast have never stopped!  Edgar Allan Poe never made a single comment on the political issues of his day, but I am not Edgar Allan Poe!

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     The Unknown Poe, by Raymond Foye, City Lights Books, 1980, was still another book that Ms. Kenmotsu purchased for this author, Brill, and which encouraged him to read more of the esoteric publications of Poe Scholarship. Brill has no contributions in Foye's book, but simply wants others to know of its value to an understanding of Poe and his work which Brill had never known before conducting our own research in Scotland. This small volume is not mentioned in any of the bibliography of other books promoted by other biographers of Poe study. At every library, Poe museum or site, and elsewhere, we have made a point to inform the directors of the value of Foye's work.  Mr. Foye is an accomplished editor and author of many books on art, and subjects of esthetic's, but it is his focus on the French Critics that is central to a greater under standing of Poe than Brill had read, outside of his own intellectual and intuitive capacity.

     Above is the "Table of Contents" page from the Journal NEWSLETTERS of Georgian Technical University's Internatiobal Conference Proceedinds. Articles are submitted by professors from around the world, in a full range of subjects, from the Arts, Humanities, Languages, and Sciences. Articles submitted in English are translated into either the Georgian or Russian languages, or both, by Professor Tamar Mebuke. Brill is conversant in English and French only, however. Nevertheless, as many Russians are interested in Edgar Allan Poe's work, this writer believes such a publication is almost as effective as publication in a solely Russian language publication.  His essay begins on page 44, "Edgar Allan Poe and the Poet's Freedom of Coinage," available in the other languages upon request from the publishers.  In the 2010 conference proceedings, Brill's paper, 'End of the mystery: Eldorado!' was a discussion of some of the Scottish influences upon the 'attitude' of Poe that resulted in his "murders."  Finally, Brill's most recent essay, "Is Wealth of Value?" discussed Poe's aversion to actual money and material wealth, in contrast to his devotion to education, thinking, writing, and literary criticism.  None of that left any time for his competing in the world of capitalism and Wall Street's preoccupation with it.

Below is the cover of a typical program of the University of Hawaii-Manoa's International Conference on the Arts and Humanities  in Honolulu, Hawaii.  This is this writers second such conference.  Given that the author lives on The Big Island, Hawaii, at Kona, Honolulu is but half-an-hour plane ride.  As a retired Air Force Sergeant, we stay at Hickum Air Force Base during the conference.  Since our attending the conference in Greece, Ms. Kenmotsu and I tried to attend and present papers at conferences around the world. Our purpose was to introduce an awareness of Poe were we knew our points of view of Poe in Scotland would be favorably received.  Unfortuantely, since 2008, the American economy has emploded, and we are no longer able to fund such trips.  Nevertheless, the effort of international travel, and in the case of our visit to The Republic of Georgia, an around-the-world effort, the physical demands are now very severe.

Below, the cover of the second U. of H.-Manoa conf
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Text of papers are published in this Journal

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     A most fortuitous visit to the then Burns Federation, Ltd., located in the Dick Institute, led to extraordinary, never-before-known family relationships between Robert Burns, John Allan, John Galt, and Edgar Allan Poe. Mr. Ingles presented Ms. Kenmotsu and I with this copy of the Burns Chronicle, after which its Editor, Peter Westwood, found three of my submissions on the subject worthy of publication. The magazine is available only to members of Burns Clubs, worldwide.  Mr. Ingles then informed us that we might be interested in visiting the Irvine Burns Club, as it had a collection of books about Poe, and which no one knew anything about.  Please see our notes on this visit in the Irvine pages.  As a former Sacramento cop, I simply went from one 'lead' to another, until our time was up, a week, and we had to return to California with what we had captured on film, copies, and materials.

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     "Edgar Allan Poe's Prescription for a Good Night's Sleep: 'The Premature Burial'" in the January 2002 edition of The Atlantic Literary Review, Editor, Mittapalli Rajeshwar, Kakatiya University, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. This explication of Poe's story appears in Chapter 5, "IV. The Galloway Survey," of my manuscript in progress, from which it was excerpted.  The title of this journal is mis-leading, as the Atlantic Ocean touches no part of the country of India in which it is published!  It is to be noted, however, that Professor Rajeshwar vastly improved this author's text, and the excerpt was 'lifted' from that journal and made part of a pirated volume, American Literature in Critical Perspective, now sold out! 
     I waited for years for an opportunity to visit this wonderful Professor of English and scholar, who has written profusely on literary and language subjects related to India.  I was always intrigued as to why he knew so much about the writings of Edgar Allan Poe?  I was able to make a quick visit to Hyderabad, and then south to his city of residence, Warangal (va' rang a), and Kakatia University, and learned more thoroughly about his background.  He had since been promoted to the position of Dean of the Department of Arts.  However, he maintains a connection with teachingEnglish, as well as administers the Doctoral Program for such Ph. D. candidates. 
     At the time of my submission of an article from our manuscript-in-progress, I had no idea whether or not my material had any value.  As a consequence of Professor Rajeshwar's effort to edit and publish the excerpt, I received sufficient response from other Poe scholars to indicate I had done something useful for Poe biography.  In thaat same chapter of our book, I also had 20 pages of explication and support of Poe's poem "Ulalume."  Nevertheless, my submission of information of "The Premature Burial" proved satisfactory.  The journal is always available for downloading from the publicaiton's web-site.