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It should be pointed out that there are many in the academic world who dismiss Poe as a bad writer. Harold Bloom has been quite outspoken in condemning Poe's works (especially, it seems, the poetry). You wrote this essay in 2007, two years after the historic edition of TALES, edited by Peter Straub for The Library of America. That book herald Lovecraft into the mainstream of acknowledged American Literary Classics, and yet there were, at the time of the book's release, a number of snobs who considered it foolishness on the part of LoA to publish a volume of what they still consider pulp fiction. I have no idea if the book has, as I once suspected it would, legitimize Lovecraft's standing in the world of Academia. Now that S. T. Joshi is living here in Seattle again, I will try and remember to ask him about this. Some people dismiss the "value" of Lovecraft's being accepted by the Highbrows: for them, his true value is as a world-famous author of entertaining weird fiction, the value of which exists in itself rather than the opinions of old gents at universities. Lovecraft's appeal to young fans will never, one hopes, be vanquished by his being taken seriously in the academic realm.