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A real show of adjectival fireworks from the great Poe himself.
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Not only do you refuse to print my review of Longfellow
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but you run his third-rate poem instead!
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- People like Longfellow. - Editors like you tell them to.
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Have you no soul, Henry?
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Does the artistic enrichment of your readers mean nothing to you?
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Artistic enrichment?
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You've got some gall, barging into my office and lecturing me
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when all you do is criticise others' work!
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Not true. Not true at all.
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You called Emerson a "Sad, festering literary whore".
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Because he is precisely that.