Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. 7 (published 1906). TO HIS GENERALS BEFORE INVADING SILESIA (1740) Gentlemen, I am undertaking a war in which I have
Edgar Allan Poe–favorite poet of goth teenagers, Lovecraftian horror fans, and other denizens of fine non-chain coffee-shops all across the fruited plain. Poet and author, he was inventor of what became the
Regale me with tales of woe and glory, of heroes at resplendent feasts and maidens kidnapped by Zeus-as-beast. Leave out the unpleasant parts, and avoid witches and dark arts. In fact, just
In a dreary Yankee prison where a rebel soldier layBy his side there stood a preacher ere his soul should pass awayAnd he faintly whispered parson, as he clutched him by the
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