[Margaret Fuller], review in the New York Daily Tribune

Mr Poe throws down the gauntlet in his preface, by what he says of ‘the paltry compensations or more paltry commendations of mankind’. Some champion might be expected to start up from the ‘somewhat sizeable’ class embraced, or more properly speaking, boxed on the ear, by this defiance, who might try whether the sting of Criticism was as indifferent to this knight of the pen as he professes its honey to be.