Introduction
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Journal, February 24, 1847
EDGAR ALLAN POE, “Review of [Longfellow’s] Hyperion,” Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, October 1839
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Owen, 1839
EDGAR ALLAN POE, “Letter to B— —”, Southern Literary Messenger, July 1836
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS to EDGAR ALLAN POE, Autographed Letter, July 30, 1846
WILLIAM E. BURTON to EDGAR ALLAN POE, Autographed letter, May 30, 1839
THOMAS H. CHIVERS to EDGAR ALLAN POE, Autographed Letter, August 27, 1840
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Outre-Mer, or The Pilgrimage, Boston: Hillard, Gray, & Company, 1835
EDGAR A. POE, “Review of Orion by R. H. Horne,” Graham’s Magazine, 1844
Edgar Allan Poe, “A Chapter on Autography [part I],” Graham’s Magazine, November 1841, 19:224-234
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Songs on Slavery, Cambridge: MA: John Owen, 1842
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847
EDGAR ALLAN POE, “Editorial Miscellany,” The Broadway Journal, November 22, 1845
SARAH MARGARET FULLER, Review of “Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” in Papers on Literature and Art, New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851
FULLER to the Editor of the Broadway Journal [E. A. POE]
EDGAR ALLAN POE, “Sarah Margaret Fuller,” in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 5, New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A Fable for Critics: A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies, New York: G. P. Putnam, 1848
EDGAR ALLAN POE to FREDERICK W. THOMAS Autographed letter, February 14, 1849
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “At the Saturday Club,” in Before the Curfew, and Other Poems, Chiefly Occasional, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. [First published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1884]
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “Our Dead Singer,” The Atlantic Monthly, June 1882.
EDGAR ALLAN POE to RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD, Autographed Letter, May 29, 1841
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW to RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD, Autographed Letter, September 28, 1850
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW to Messrs Welch and Bigelow, April 23, 1864
THOMAS OLDHAM BARLOW (1824-1889), Washington Irving and his Friends at Sunnyside, engraving based on a composite photograph by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822-1888)
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Twice-Told Tales, Boston: John B. Russell, 1837
EDGAR ALLAN POE, “Review of Twice-Told Tales,” Graham’s Magazine, May 1842
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, [unsigned] “Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne,” North American Review, July 1837
Chapter 5 Conclusion

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “At the Saturday Club,” in Before the Curfew, and Other Poems, Chiefly Occasional, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. [First published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1884]

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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “At the Saturday Club,” in Before the Curfew, and Other Poems, Chiefly Occasional, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. [First published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1884]

In this nostalgic celebration of the Saturday Club—a group of leading Bostonian intellectuals that included writers, historians, and scientists—Holmes focused on his literary friends. Two years after the death of Longfellow, Holmes insists that he still wears the “POET Laureate” wreath and that his reputation endures. “How could I think him dead?” Holmes asks rhetorically. “He lives! He lives!”

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Forgotten Chapters of Boston's Literary History

Longfellow’s Serenity and Poe’s Prediction

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “At the Saturday Club,” in Before the Curfew, and Other Poems, Chiefly Occasional, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. [First published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1884]

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “At the Saturday Club,” in Before the Curfew, and Other Poems, Chiefly Occasional, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. [First published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1884]