The narrator of the story tells of his dream, in which he imagined he was a Pharisee who has just helped to crucify Christ. The Post gives no more identification of the author than the letter “P.” One is a short story entitled “A Dream” from 1831. There’s also mystery of unsigned pieces that might be the work of Poe. By the time of it appeared, Poe was long gone from the Academy. Poe had dedicated his book to the cadets of West Point because many of them had loaned him money to have the book printed. Corps of Cadets, as the volume is dedicated to that body. The author is, we believe, a member of the U.S. Poe, a part of which was published in a former edition. We extract the following poetry from a small 18mo volume of poems, by Edgar A. The Post also printed one of Poe early poems, “To Helen.” (“Helen, thy beauty is to me/ Like those Nicean barks of yore…”) When it appeared on May 21, 1831, Poe was so little known that the editors felt obliged to give him an introduction:
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