ABSTRACT

Unsigned review, New York Criterion (10 November 1855). Included in Imprints, pp. 55–6.

Rufus W. Griswold was the literary executor of Edgar Allan Poe. He is identified as the author of this review in W. D. O’Connor’s copy of Leaves of Grass. (See Bliss Perry, Walt Whitman: His Life and Work, 2nd ed. rev. (1908), p. 100.)