Emily Ogden: 2 books

From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena,...

This volume contains selected works from several poets that are available in the public domain.  All the poets have some connection to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, which was the primary reason for thieeir inclusion.  The most famous of these poets are, of course, Edgar Allan Poe, who...