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Franklin P. Adams’s newspaper crime-blotter recasting of Edgar Allan Poe

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Joseph Bottum
Jan 31, 2024
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Édouard Manet’s Annabel Lee illustration for Stéphane Mallarmé 1888 translation, Les Poèmes d’Edgar Poe (Wikimedia Commons)

In Something Else Again, a 1920 collection of his magazine and newspaper work, Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960) gave us “Annabel Lee,” the 1849 poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — as retold in the insinuating voice of crime reporting in the New York tabloids of the time:

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