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Show POE AND-MANGAN. Irish and American Poets Had Many Characteristics in Common. The poetry of Clarence Mangan has many characteristics in common with that " of Edgar Allen Poe, the famous American poet, says the Freeman's Journal of Dublin, and the careers of both had also much of misfortune in common. Both had to battle against that "unmerciful disaster" of which Poe sings in his famous lyric, "The Raven," and of which Mangan chants with such graphic misery in "The Nameless One." In June, 1849, Mangan died in the Meath hospital, Dublin, and in the following October Edgar Poe died in a public hospital in Baltimore. Bearing these resemblances or coincidences coin-cidences in mind, it is a little curious to observe that the handwriting of the famous poets. is very much alike, as a comparison amply reveals. Of course, if their writing beyonged to any accepted ac-cepted type there would be nothing surprising in such a resemblance, but the fact that they both wrote very distinctively dis-tinctively from the majority of people, yet with a marvelously close resemblance resem-blance to each other, is certainly remarkable re-markable when we remember the many other ways in' which these gifted if unfortunate sons of song resembled each other. |