Show how the bells was written john sartain Sart aln well known as the first great american engraver and moreover as a man of letters the half owner and managing editor lit in the fo forties riles of sartains Sart ains magazine the friend of all the great literary men of his time still lives quietly in philadelphia mr sar tain maln was a firm friend of roe poe in his wild moods frequently it was mr sartain only who could control the outburst mr sartain used to buy poes hasty lines and thus furnish the poet with a dinner sometimes sadly needed it was in this way that lie he bought the bolls bells 0 one tie day poe very ragged rushed into the office of the magazine with a bit of verse that he wished to sell out of compassion for his apparent suffering the editor bought the poem after the writer had bad rushed out lie he read it without much admiration and tiled filed it away this is the poem the bells hear the bolls bells the merry wedding bells the little silver boils bells how fairylike fairy like a monody there swells from the silver tinkling cells of 0 the bells the bells all ah the bells the heavy iron bells belli ilear the tolling of the bells hear the knells how horrible a monody there floats from r rout their throats from their deep toned throats how I 1 shudder at the notes from the melancholy throats of the bells ot of the bells presently roe poe very wroth asked why the poem had not been published being informed lie wrote ft a second more elaborate version and when unit that too had been refused he be wrote a third this was the form in which the poem goei at lust last appeared boston commod commonwealth |