In another (likely now dead) literary forum there was a fellow who was a champion of Poe. He would rail about (with evidence, which was nice) how Emerson and then Eliot went about destroying Poe's reputation.
Poe gets hate for the same reason Longfellow does: what he's doing looks easy but is nearly impossible to replicate (except in parody).
I think if we are going to seriously embrace not just form in poetry but poetry as a thriving art and not a boutique or bespoke one, we need to have a serious re-evaluation of both Longfellow and Poe.
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