Book Description

Excerpt from Journalism Versus Art, 1916 Mr. Robinson was invited by the Century Magazine, under a former editor, to do a series of paintings illustrating Edgar Allan Poe's stories. He made three, and they were all rejected because there was too much "horror" in them for Century readers. It is a pity to reproduce this picture without color, but as an example of what magazine standards would do to art, and to literature, the anecdote cannot be passed. Mr. Poe would be invited to go home and take some of the horror out of his stories, too, for circulation purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.