[4] Lines addressed to Messrs. Dwight and Barlow.
[5] Fitzgreene Halleck, “Fanny,” stanza lviii.
[6] Mason and Slidell, ll. 155–165.
[7] “Fanny,” stanzas cxxi, cxxii.
[8] “Wyoming,” stanza iv.
[9] “Among the Hills” (Prelude, 71 ff.).
[10] Lowell, “Fable for Critics.”
[11] An interesting tribute is paid this poem by Ezra Pound in a footnote to “L’Homme Moyen Sensuel,” in “Pavannes and Divisions,” p. 33. “I would give these rhymes now with dedication ‘To the Anonymous Compatriot Who Produced the Poem “Fanny” Somewhere About 1820,’ if this form of centennial homage be permitted me. It was no small thing to have written, in America, at that distant date, a poem of over forty pages which one can still read without labor.”
[12] It was reserved for Poe to write a genuinely critical estimate of it. See The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II, pp. 326 ff. Reprinted in “The Literati,” p. 374.
[13] Found in the volume “Nature, Addresses and Lectures.”