To the Editor:
The second endnote of my “MAD About ‘The Raven,’” in the Edgar Allan Poe Review 14, no. 2 (2013), contains the following statement: “Still, it may be satisfying to the Poe world to know that when it comes to gracing (if that's the right word) the pages of MAD, Poe takes the gold with his eighteen appearances. The despised (by Poe) Longfellow is a close second, with fifteen appearances” (161). This is a bold, forthright statement indeed. It is also, unfortunately, wrong. Work on a recent project has sent me back into the pages of MAD, and along the way, I've had occasion to recheck my count of appearances by various poets. I'm pleased to report that Poe holds good at eighteen, but my count of fifteen for Longfellow falls embarrassingly short. Assuming that recount is correct (and while I have been very careful...
