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by keithold is a prodigal bagger on November 1st, 2009

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What was Rufus Griswold best known for?

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  • by Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger on November 1st, 2009

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    After Edgar Allen Poe's mysterious death in 1849, Griswold wrote an unsympathetic obituary. Claiming to be Poe's chosen literary executor, he began a campaign to harm Poe's reputation that lasted until his own death eight years later.

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