Answer to Listener

01/28/25 • 34 min

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 321 - Answer to Listener
The intro music was Come Rest in This Bosom - said to be Edgar Poe’s favorite song.
I’d like to start with a whooper of an apology - last month - yes, last month - I got a kind message with my podcast episode on my iPhone - I was so elated that I did an entire episode in response to the individual’s comments - but I was moving some files around and promptly lost it - I had foolishly named it Attend to This - which of course made it impossible to find. Well, just a few minutes ago I was trying to clean up my Mac desktop, opened a file named Attend to This - and saw in was the podcast script I wrote in response to the message - So before I loose it again, this episode is a response to that message. And thanks for your patience.
The message read:
Thank you for this podcast, Mr. Bartley. It's a refreshing look at Poe’s life and times. I just now finished John Allen's will episode. I'm pro Poe and no matter what he did, I believe that Mr. Allan was wrong to not leave him anything in his will. perhaps he thought Poe would accomplish more if he had to do it on his own? Perhaps we would not have the soulful poems poe left us? I'm wondering what your thoughts are on this matter? 5 stars (For privacy purposes I am not going to say the person’s name - you never know.)
Well, thank you for writing. And the person gave me 5 stars. Thank you.

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DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Two

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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 320 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Two
When I started this podcast, my plans are to delve more into Charles Baudelaire, but I ran into something that I did not expect. Oh sure, there was his great collection known as Flowers of Evil and his classic and highly influential translation of Poe’s works. And I began reading a book about the controversial topic of the use of opium by Baudelaire - but I soon found that much of Baudelaire’s interests were centered around a writer known as Thomas De Quincey. Baudelaire’s intended to translate Thomas De Quincey’s Confession of an English Opium Eater. So And in a strange way, I found that reading about Thomas De Quincey helped me understand Baudelaire much better, and gain insights into the personal and creative challenges that Baudelaire faced as someone addicted to an opium.

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DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three

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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 321 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three)
I hope you listened to the previous episode that deals with Thomas De Quincy and his 1821 autobiographical work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
But before we go any further, I wan to try and clear something up. An opium-eater is not actually someone who eats opium, but rather a person who uses opium as a recreational drug or an opium addict. The term "opium-eater" was popularized by Thomas De Quincey in his work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”. In reality, De Quincey consumed opium in the form of laudanum, which is a tincture of opium dissolved in alcohol. This liquid preparation was widely used in the 19th century to treat various ailments and was easily available without a prescription. What could possibly go wrong?

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