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Contemporary writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote to Longfellow in May 1841 of his "fervent admiration which [your] genius has inspired in me" and later called him "unquestionably the best poet in America".[112] However, after Poe's reputation as a critic increased, he publicly accused Longfellow of plagiarism in what has been since termed by Poe biographers as "The Longfellow War".[113] His assessment was that Longfellow was "a determined imitator and a dextrous adapter of the ideas of other people",[112] specifically Alfred, Lord Tennyson.[114] His accusations may have been a publicity stunt to boost readership of the Broadway Journal, for which he was the editor at the time.[115] Longfellow did not respond publicly, but, after Poe's death, he wrote: "The harshness of his criticisms I have never attributed to anything but the irritation of a sensitive nature chafed by some indefinite sense of wrong".[116]
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