Selections from Poe

Name: Selections from Poe
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan

Poe, Edgar Allan

Fantasy poetry, American; Short stories, American

180. 23-24. "A design so baneful, if not worthy of Atreus, is worthy
of Thyestes." Atreus and Thyestes were brothers to whom, in classic
story, the most terrible crimes were attributed.

180. 25. Prosper J. de Crébillon (1674-1762), a noted French
tragic poet. The quotation is from "Atrée et Thyeste."

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Selections from Poe

Poe, Edgar Allan

Fantasy poetry, American; Short stories, American

180. 23-24. "A design so baneful, if not worthy of Atreus, is worthy
of Thyestes." Atreus and Thyestes were brothers to whom, in classic
story, the most terrible crimes were attributed.

180. 25. Prosper J. de Crébillon (1674-1762), a noted French
tragic poet. The quotation is from "Atrée et Thyeste."

End of Project Gutenberg's Selections from Poe, by J. Montgomery Gambrill

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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