Letters to Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Nashville, TN. 1967.

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Letters to Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Nashville, TN. 1967.

Concerning a possible meeting of Tate's great-grandfather and Poe.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7103017

University of Iowa Libraries

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Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 1898-1968

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Thomas Ollive Mabbott (July 6, 1898 – May 15, 1968) was an American professor and scholar of literature, perhaps best known for his research on writer Edgar Allan Poe. He has also done studies on John Milton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Chatterton, and Edward Coote Pinkney. Mabbott was born and raised in New York City. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University, earning his AB (1920), AM (1921), and Ph.D. (1923) in English. After graduating from Columbia, Mabbott taught English literatu...

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...

Tate, Allen, 1899-

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American poet and author. From the description of Typed letters signed (8) : Monteagle and Clarksville, Tenn. and [n.p.], to Stark Young, 1934 Feb. 20-1942 Dec. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875012 ...