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What Other Poe Scholars
Are Saying… Several professors of various disciplines have written, mostly e-mails.
All have been laudatory; however, some have appeared reluctant or embarrassed about being identified with a quote of their
remarks, so I do not include them. Where we have been published or discussed in the publications of others, such as The
Burns Chronicle, Frank Beattie's local history books, and so on, we do not quote here as the knowledge of these materials
is well known by Scots, and not regarded by most academic Americans as important. Quotes presented here, however, are samples.
“I believe that you are conducting original and significant work on Poe and wish you the very best of luck in
publishing it in the future."
[On one occasion during the literary conference
at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Professor Gair stated, "You write like a cop!" I never
did learn what he meant by that, but in my lifetime I have met few cops who had any interest in acedmic and scholarly writing.
Consequently, I never will know what he intended? Professor Gair is a soft-spoken, but dynamic voice of the
conference in Greece. He is Managing Editor, Symbiosiss, and Professor, Department of American
and Canadian Studies, The University of Birmingham, England. Principle Director of the Annual International Conference, Symbiosis,
which seeks to join an understanding of Trans-Atlantic Literature and Culture between North American and Scotland. This conference was the first at which I have presented an academic
paper to international conferences, and has proven to be the most rewarding.]
~Brill presented a paper to the 5th Symbiosis Conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2005,
on “Edgar Allan Poe’s Rejection of the Church of Scotland’s Calvinism.”~
“With your interest in Robert Burns and Edgar Allan Poe
you should start a Burns-Poe Club or Society on the Internet. In that way you could devote your energies to both literary
figures at the same time.”
Murdo Morrison,
Past President of the Robert Burns Federation, Ltd., Kilmarnock, Scotland, and Professor Emeritus of English and
Gaelic, the University of Glasgow, Scotland. [Professor Morrison is completely unknown in American circles;
however, in Scottish academic and literary communities, he is known for a variety of life-time studies and writings, not to
mention a guiding director of Robert Burns World Federation, Ltd.]
“Thanks so much for the articles
from the 'Ulster-Scot Newspaper.' I enjoy keeping up with your circularly efforts re, Poe’s Scottish connections. Best
wishes for the holidays and 2004.”
Steve Adams,
Professor of English, and Director of Graduate Studies, the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Member of the Poe Studies Association. [Professor
Adams provided the early encouragement for our project, as did Mr. Foye, that is crucial to a fan taking up an isolated research
study of any writer, without the lateral support of psychic and financial backing of university faculty, or publisher.
A visit to his web site while he was still at the University of Minnesota showed me that I would not even qualify for admission
into one of his classes on Poe, as the reading and writing schedule were so overwhelming.]
“The materials you sent me on Poe are more fascinating
than anything I have seen in ages. This is the most original Poe scholarship I have seen in ages. How brilliant of you to
tackle this angle.”
Raymond Foye,
Author of The Unknown Poe, City Lights
Books, San Francisco, 1980.
[It
must be recorded here that, except for Hervey Allen's biography, Israfel, no other volume on Poe and his writings
has been more valuable to our present study than Mister Foys'. As a consequence of acquiring insights into a new approach
to understanding Poe and his works, Mr. Foys' book made me aware of how very important were the writings of the French
Critics to an understanding of his work. I have one chapter on the importance of this community of thinkers, as
well as many comments throughout our book, some favorable, some not.]
“'Edgar Allan Poe’s Prescription
for a Good Night’s Sleep' is an engaging and informative study of 'The Premature Burial.' Your imaginative reading of
the story on its various levels left me with new insights and inspired me to re-read the tale on the spot. I liked especially
your explication of the line “for this let us thank a merciful God!” The story of Cathy Fiscus was both sadly
moving for itself and appropriate for your approach to Poe’s tale."
“I was fascinated by the descriptions
of your research into Poe’s Ayrshire connections and influences. I hope you soon find a publisher for what promises
to be ground-breaking work that will add substantially to our knowledge of Poe’s life and writings.”
Stephen Adams,
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. [Professor Adams has now retired from the University of Minnesota. His own
web pages of his interest in Edgar Allan Poe have been removed, and he is, I think, milking sheep on a farm in Duluth! (For
city folk, one does not milk sheep! My own German father was from a family of sharecroppers in Wabashaw County, Chester Township,
Minnesota, and he never told me a single story about life in that state, but the dreadful cold of Duluth, where he once was
a lumber jack.) The breath and depth of Professor Adams' material, and what and how he taught Poe were blinding. I never would
have qualified to enter any of his courses. There are hundreds of dedicated, driven investigators of information of and about
Poe; therefore, I am honored to have been in communication with Professor Adams before he disappeared from the university.] "Dear
Bob,
Thanks for your message and for the brief description of your work on Poe, which sounds very interesting indeed.
He's one of my favorite writers, although I'd never thought of him in connection with Nietzsche before. ...." Dr Greg Moore, President, Friedrich Nietzsche Society
Department of German
University of St Andrews www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~gm60/
friedrichnietzschesociety.wordpress.com
[After
again becoming familiar with Poe's work in 1996, I happened upon some of Nietzsche's pithy coinage, extracted by many
university students over the decades. I could not imagine such comments coming from someone who had not at least a little
knowledge of Poe's work. In consequence, I bought a few basic volumes, in English, off of the Internet. I learned
that, indeed, the great German philosopher had read Edgar Allan Poe. This is but one very rewarding outcome of taking
the time to read other writers, while trying desperately to finish our manuscript with what we had from Scotland.]
Many of the other web sites of Poe and his works have the benefit of budget and professionals, many of whom quote pithy excerpts
of Poe. I have over a thousand pages of such use of Poe's words, so will add a few from time to time. It was Hervey
Allen who has been most empathetic of Poe's profound work and lamentable poverty. One quote from his biography, Israfel:
"(from our page 296) From Saltcoats to Largs
the scenes were so gorgeous and divine that we often could not help but stop and look at this or that re-enforced ocean wall,
fishing village, and dock. Once, again, Hervey Allen has helped us seek out these places, where he tells
us, 'One can imagine him, after taps, waiting
for the roommates to drift off into the dreamless sleep which was so often denied him by their mutterings, and by the beating
at the bars of the restless wings of his own spirit,--one can imagine him getting up in the bare, cold room, and by the light
of a carefully shaded candle, setting down the proud words of Israfel. *
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*'And it was into this gulf, which
he so brooded upon during the long hours of the night, while the rest of the inmates of the barracks slumbered around him,
that Poe let down the leaky bucket of inspiration and drew forth To Helen, The Sleeper, The Paean,
Fairy-land, and The Valley of Unrest[of Glencoe], that most beautiful of all his reveries. These
poems are rich with the dark jewels of sorrow, the dim Northern twilight of Scotland and the Celtic folk tales he heard from
the old people at Irvine, the mystic landscapes of Carolina, and the exotic compound of his "Oriental" readings
best exemplified, perhaps, by The City in the Sea. These he felt were worth preserving and adding
to his already published verses....'[1]"
[1] Allen,
pp. 233 & 234.
This site, and these pages, were created and are maintained solely, as time allows, by Robert (Bob) Densmore Brill, M. A.
(English), J. D., from his home in Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i (The Big Island). Please E-mail poeinscotland@aol.com for the most prompt response. Your comments, criticisms, comments, or questions are welcomed.
VISITORS: Many photographs
and accompanying text have been removed from our web pages. Some appear to have been removed, or the format of the item
or text has been modified when www.register.com changes their word processing programs, and so on. I simply do not have
the knowledge to edit these pages entirely alone, but am terminating my self-service web hosting for the present. I
regret that Raymond Foye's words of approval have been removed, and I did not make a copy of that page, or others. As
stated elsewhere, we have promoted the existence of his valuable insights about Edgar Allan Poe called, The Unknown Poe.
Nevertheless, most academics who have made any comment about my material or site appear to need the approval of someone,
or some organization, such as PSA, before they will allow my posting their comments. I regret that the presence of the
Scots' cultural incidence of shunning exists as it does in the culture of their cousins, America. Many academics
and scholars have reacted negatively to facts and information presented in our web pages as either in error, false, or simply
without merit of consideration. As a former police offer and California lawyer, I make every effort to present information
in Scotland as we found it or know it, without any personal bigotry, bias, or distortion. As a German-American, and
Japanese-American, from Sacramento, California, we have no family or racial agenda to promote in these pages. This author
went to Ayrshire, Scotland to establish some "down-to-earth" interpretation of Poe's works, and we found it. The
details of such findings are reserved for a book, should that ever occur. Thank you for visiting, and your inquiries,
even the ones that I cannot answer. Bob Brill, Chon Buri, Thailand, 29 October 2010
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MEMORANDUM
Although the BBC Scotland Radio
broadcast, "Scots Gothic: A Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe in Ayrshire," produced by Billy Kay, has come and gone,
I leave the balance of my Memo for those interested in the points that I attempted to share before it aired.
While
America and many of her residents are in the throws of a dreadful year of economic and personal financial dispare, 2007 was
my worst in 25 years. Nevertheless, so important to my resume was the BBC Scotland Radio program, that I went on with it anyway.
31 July 2007, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA Interview with Billy Kay, Director of Odyssey Productions, on Behalf of BBC Scotland Radio,
“Edgar Allan Poe’s Scottish
Connections,”
with Robert Densmore Brill and Grace Kimi Kenmotsu My Poe in Scotland Research
Project, and the manuscript in progress of my biography that grew out of it, “Mar’se Eddie”
in The Shire, Edgar Allan Poe’s Scottish Connections, have gathered much interest since our first research
trip to Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1997. Although no academics nor scholars up to that time, and few Scots who make it their business
to know local history and literature, knew much of Edgar Allan Poe’s presence in Scotland. Nevertheless, the project
has since gathered a considerable awareness in Great Britain.
Knowledge of
my project and findings have been slowly reaching those with a keen interest in everything concerned with Edgar Allan
Poe’s life and work. I have, nevertheless, deliberately withheld notice and information of the project from Americans
outside of our Scottish-American communities until the book is published. The reason isthat everyone in Ayrshire was
extremely receptiveof our discoveries. We continue to communicate with many there who were instrumental in providing
resources and sources of information which I have written of in my manuscript. For purposes of copyright protection, a copy
is held by the Archivist of the Dundonald Parish Church.
Largely from
these people, some lay persons, some local worthies, as well as my visits to local sites, interviews with many local
museum and research library staff in and around Ayrshire, as well as local newspaper articles and other publications, “word
of mouth” has been the source that led to our BBC Scotland Radio interview. On Saturday, July 14, 2007, Grace Kenmotsu
(CSU-Sacramento 1976) and me (UC-Davis ’73; CSU-Sac ‘82; UNC Law ’84) were interviewed by the Director of
Odyssey Productions, Billy Kay, native and resident of Fife, Scotland, at our hotel in San Diego.
Billy had invited the interview last October. Nevertheless, without going to Great Britain, this would
be his first opportunity of a rendezvous in America. Grace and I flew in from Bangkok that morning.
I have not worked on my 800 page manuscript for the five years that I have been retired
to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; nevertheless, I attempted to answer Mr. Kay’s questions from memory. Subjects of specific interest
to Mr. Kay, nevertheless, such as the tangible influences in Scotland upon Master (“Mar’se Eddie”) Allan’s
mind, personality, and literature were discussed and recorded. For example, Edgar Allan Poe’s relationship to his adoptive
father, John Allan, and Poe’s relationship to John Allan’s cousin, the Scots poet, Robert Burns, were central
to Poe wanting to be a poet himself. It was Edgar Allan Poe’s conscious decision to become a poet as well, against his
father’s and family’s (i.e. Scots novelist, John Galt (also of Irvine) wishes, but also Edgar Allan Poe became
a poet who purposely wrote in a most heinous genre. On the other hand, Burns is known world-wide as a writer of love poetry.
Our interview lasted one hour. Mr. Kay stated that he will return to Scotland to edit our interview
and conversations that he has conducted with many others in Scotland, from whom he obtained my name. [Frank Beattie, James
Gracie, to name but two] Mr. Kay will produce a radio program for airing in October of this year. Notice that it airs in the
month of Poe’s death! Unlike the other radio, movie, and television productions which arose out of information in our
project, the BBC Scotland Radio program will be available to American audiences. Mr. Kay advises that
the program will air on Wednesday, Halloween, 31 October 2007, at 11:30 a.m., and then repeated at 30 minutes past midnight.
Visit their website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/ The program will air for one full week on the Internet after it is broadcast
on the radio, in Scotland only.
Given his authority in Scottish culture and literature, he is
very adept at using the Scots’ dialect, naturally. Moreover, his Scots’ brogue makes for more forceful use of
his subject. For example, his program will feature his own discoveries and knowledge of Ayrshire’s, “ghaists and
houlets,” “witches and warlocks,” “body snatchers, premature burials,” and oh, yes, “cannibals!”
Mr. Kay further informed us that the program will be available via the BBC Radio Scotland website, URL: , live as it is broadcast
for one full week after it is broadcast on the radio.
This
Memorandum shall be sent to our acquaintances and friends at colleges, schools, organizations, and persons worldwide,
who have otherwise been informed of our research project.
Any
questions, comments, or advice may be sent to this writer at poeinscotland@aol.com. Please see our www.poeinscotland.com web
pages for further information of production and published facts and opinions of our findings in Scotland.
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This researcher posts the following article from the
Irvine, Ayrshire local newspaper, The Irvine Herald, for those Americans who assert and insist that Poe had
no Scottish Connections. The following is but one of the many items published in Scotland regarding Poe's connections,
and our project. Please write to the staff writer below and tell her you do not believe her information!
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~Thank you, Bob Brill 20 November 2009: 10:41am | login/register Visit our other sites: Ayrshire
Post Kilmarnock Standard Ayrshire Careers Dating Fish 4 Homes icScotland Road Record Smart New Homes Scotcareers Scotwheels
LocalMole - Local Business Directory Down memory laneNov 13 2009by Elis White, Irvine Herald I’M away back to writing about
Edgar Allan Poe this week because a copy of a 1997 Scottish Memories was handed into the Herald Office this week for me and
it contains a very fine article about Poe’s connection with the Saltcoats/Ardrossan area.Thank you,
Andy, I do appreciate this because as I keep saying – “Learning all the time.”So far I’ve
never gone into this connection but I knew about it because several years ago I visited the North Ayrshire Museum in Saltcoats
and Mark Strachan, the curator there, told me about headstones erected in the Old Saltcoats graveyard for members of the Poe
family.He said to me at that time that he was sure it was the same Poe as Edgar Allan Poe.Certainly
I didn’t discard Mark’s words but as Edgar’s father, David Poe, was an actor from America, I thought it
had to be a big coincidence that Poes from Saltcoats who had emigrated to America were familiar with the Allan family from
Irvine.However, probably I was far too hasty in that assumption as these things happen all the time. You go off
on holiday and often you meet other people from your home town and similar happenings.Again, some years ago, I had one or
two letters from a Bill Brill (I think I remembered his name correctly) – no, it was Bob Brill who was a very well-travelled
American.He was an author, passionate about Robert Burns and many things Scottish, this time he was focused on Edgar
Allan Poe.He asked me to fill him in about Edgar’s time in Irvine. This I did as much as I could but at that
time I had had several letters from Herald readers asking me for information about various things so I was a wee bit harassed.Well, the tattie soup and all that still had to be made, plus a wee bit of baby sitting etc, so when Bob went on to
enquire about this Saltcoats connection, I had to write back and tell him truthfully I didn’t know anything about the
Poe family in Saltcoats.So I was really pleased to get this copy of Scottish Memories from Andy and to read
this article written by a John McInnes, to whom I give full credit and I’ll go on to tell you some interesting excerpts
from it.He starts off by telling readers about visiting St Mungo’s graveyard which surrounds Glasgow Cathedral.Wandering about there he liked to see headstones of many of Glasgow’s merchants and business people.On one visit there he came across a headstone erected to the memory of John and Jane Poe. I’ll quote a wee bit
now.“Being an inquisitive visitor myself, I recognised the surname of one of the greatest writers of ‘mystery
and imagination’ my curiosity was further fuelled by the middle name “Galt” of John and Jane’s son
James.”Now, I thought, there’s a thing because we all know that John Galt, the famous author, was born in
High Street, Irvine.John McInnes, the writer here, says that Galt was commonly considered to belong to
Greenock but he knew Galt was born in Irvine. He also knew that was where Edgar had been brought to as a child by John Allan
and his wife.I’ll quote again: “Since my hobby is genealogy, I knew that the International Genealogical Index
would hold more information and, sure enough, I found John Poe’s marriage entry – the year was 1808 and the town
was Irvine.”So, he then went on to research further and looked up the name “Poe” in
the Ayrshire IGI and found several folk having that name all living in close proximity in the Saltcoats/Ardrossan area.Then, he reasoned, there had to be some connection between these Saltcoats Poes and the Galts and the Allans.He said he had never read in any of the biographies about Edgar Allan Poe about any connection with Scottish families
names Poe, let alone any Saltcoats ones.All the biographies he had read had given David Poe, an actor,
as Edgar’s father. We all knew that, but he said his grandfather was another David, General David Poe of Baltimore,
originally from Ireland. So he went on to suggest that Edgar had relatives in the Saltcoats area who were connected by marriage
to the Allans of Saltcoats and Irvine.“This would go a long way,” he wrote, “to explaining
why a canny Scot’s businessman should adopt the child of strangers. But what kind of proof was there in such a link?
Once again the answer lay in a graveyard.”So our author must have done a lot more researching until he found
out that the David Poe, who lay in Saltcoats kirkyard was a carrier.Saltcoats, like Irvine, was a thriving
harbour in the 18th and 19th century and again like Irvine, had a vibrant trade in coal.Herring and timber existed in trade
and carriers regularly visiting Arran, Ireland and many ports and islands up and down from Irvine to Wee Cumbrae to fuel the
early lighthouse there when I quoted from John and Noreen Steele’s book.John McInnes then went on: “Here
we have that elusive clue which provides the link between the Poes and the Allans.“The latter had their humble
beginnings in North Ayrshire and went on to build up the world famous Allan Steamship Company which did its most lucrative
trading with Montreal in Canada.“One merchant who used their ships was John Galt, the father of the “Annals”
author, who moved from Irvine to Greenock, the better to conduct his shipping enterprises.“His
son, John, had a position in the firm’s Montreal office and, with ties of kinship with the Allan and Galts, soon amassed
his own fortune although he was not really cut out for business.The graves of early members of the Allan and
Galt families are in the old Irvine cemetery as is the grave of James Speirs, father of the man who married Frances Ann Poe,
the daughter of John and Jane Poe.”A long paragraph follows concerning interwoven relationships between
close-knit business families in the West of Scotland being endless and how a researcher had to have a nose for history and
mystery and also the perseverance to follow unlikely leads.He says he often has to hack his way through
weeds and undergrowth to get at the tombstones which had the clues he required.John McInnes’ genealogy research
into the Poe family took him to Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th century – what a tremendous amount of work he
has put into this – and he found records showing Poes living and carrying on their business a mere ferryboat ride away.He says: “Ties of kinship and commerce had linked Scotland and Ireland for decades. Poe’s great-grandfather
had married a girl called McBride and the McBrides can be found in large numbers in North Ayrshire from the early 18th century
onwards.“Apart from the usual difficulties experienced when exploring the life of a famous person, investigation
into Poe’s life is even more fraught. He was not merely renowned – he was notorious. His death, preceded by several
missing days, is shrouded in mystery, but what we know of his life tells us of excesses. He was an alcoholic and was also
reputed to have taken large doses of opiates. He married a child-bride who died long and bloodily of tuberculosis and he then
had a strangely close relationship with his mother-in-law.“The sensitive nervous system and fragile
intelligence which produced the fantastical and rhythmically energetic poems, as well as the morbid, gothic tales, stemmed
from violent alterations of mood and mental states that hovered on the fringe of madness.“Such
a character was not only a blot on the escutcheon of Victorian families like the Allans and the Galts, it was necessary that
his connection be erased altogether.”It was not too fanciful to imagine old Uncle William Galt putting
out the word reinforced by the opinions of his kinsman John Allan, that Edgar Allan Poe was persona non grata.John Galt, whose fame rested on the words he wrote, penned not a syllable about his infamous cousin. That is why we
are forced to go to graveyards for our story. High up on Glasgow’s necropolis lie the Allans, housed in an impressive
mausoleum.Down to the left lies William Galt, native of Kilmarnock and merchant in Montreal.Down to the
left further down lie John and Jane Poe who started off my story.Nearer the sea, in the old graveyards
of Saltcoats and Irvine, lie more of the dramatic personae, now unable to speak their lines.Just a little
imagination can elicit whispers of recrimination, regret and accusation, whispers that tell of how some men could build transient
empires and steamships while others weave fantastic and lasting edifices of words.I know Edgar Allan Poe would be delighted
that a sympathetic reader of his tales was lured by the mystery of the writer’s life and found some hidden truths inscribed
on old moss-covered graves.Edgar Allan Poe certainly visited Irvine around 1815 and went to Arran and Kilmarnock.We are told that he had been brought by his foster parents, the Allans, to visit their relatives.It seems inconceivable
that young Edgar did not make the five mile journey up the coast to Saltcoats and Ardrossan where lived his own blood relations,
the Poes of North Ayrshire.”An exceptionally fine article, I thought, and again I thank Andy for giving it to me.I myself, have often wondered about young Edgar and why Arnold McJannet, who wrote such a fantastic history of our Royal
Burgh, never cottoned on to the connection between the Poes, the Allans and the Galts. Probably that’s why I never even
tried to follow it up.Again, when I read about this author visiting the graveyards, my thoughts went back
to the mid-80s when so many of our young folk got some employment with the Manpower Services Commission and went out in cold
and often wetweather to document the names of everyone who had a headstone erected to them in the graveyards.Many people felt it was a waste of time and money but these people did a great job and are blessed often by local historians
and family historians who just need to go into their local library and find out their information from this source.They did a fine job indeed. ~
~ ~ I have just reread the above article, and again am pleased that the writer, Elis White, has taken the time to do so. That was years ago, but the information will always be relevant
to a study of Edgar Poe biography. Nevertheless, I must inform those who see this website that, while John
McInnes did the original research and writing for the article, had Frank Beattie, of the Kilmarnock Standardnot shown
it to me, and then Grace Kenmotsu and I seeking out the cemetery, nothing more would have been done or known of the Poe-Allan
connection in Saltcoats. Those two lived two hundred hears ago, and had long since gone into history without anyone
knowing about their important connection to Edgar Allan Poe, of Richmond, Virginia. This is the kind of omission of
citation and credit to our work that is consistent with Scots, as mentioned on our first page.
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E-mail
received from the director of the BBC Radio Scotland program in which some of our connections of Edgar Allan Poe in Scotland
are made. "Dear Billy and Frank, Broadcast details
of the programme attached and copied below. I hope you enjoy it aw the best Billy Kay
BBC Radio Scotland 2007 Wednesday October 31 (Halloween) @ 11.04 repeated Sat Nov 3 @ 6.04 and via the Listen Again Facility
on the Radio Scotland website for one week after broadcast. Scots Gothic: A Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe in Ayrshire. As a child,
when Edgar Poe lost both his parents, he was taken in by the family of a Virginia tobacco merchant, John Allan. In 1815, when
Edgar was a boy of six, the Allans came home to Irvine for an extended visit, and sent Edgar to the local school which was
located over the wall from the kirk and its ancient burial ground. One of the tasks Edgar was set, was to copy epitaphs such
as the following from gravestones there….. "Mourn
not for me my parents dear I am not dead but sleeping here, My debt is paid my grave you see Prepare
in time to follow me." "Reader prepare, times on the wing Thy hour ere long shall come, The voice
that bids thee now prepare Speaks from an early tomb." In the company of local historians Billy Kerr, Mae McEwan, Neil Stirrat and Frank Beattie,
Billy Kay explores the Ayrshire of "ghaists an houlets", "witches and warlocks", bodysnatchers, premature
burials and cannibals - and asks whether Poe’s macabre imagination took fire in this cauldron of Scots Gothic. He will
also speak to Californian Poe enthusiast, Bob Brill, who is writing a book about Poe in Ayrshire, and is fascinated by its
effect on his writing and his connections to the families of two other great Ayrshire writers, John Galt and Robert Burns.
Edgar Allan Poe’s autobiographical poems such as ‘Alone’, and passages from stories like ‘The Premature
Burial’ will be read by actors John Buick and Keith Fleming. An Odyssey
Production for Radio Scotland" I have sent
original information of this broadcast production to as many in Poe scholarship as I had information. Including, today,
to the Frederick Nietzsche Society, of which I am a member. Other possible scholars, such as those in the Association
for Scottish Literary Studies, were not informed of this broadcast. Please share broadcast and Internet information
with those whom you believe may have an interest. I have requested of the producer and BBC Scotland Radio
information on availability of the DVD that resulted from this program, but have not received a reply. Both have a web site
as well as e-mail access.
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