<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The young poet became a legendary plebe in the few painful months he spent at West Point</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The city has been a lure for millions, but most of the great American minds have been appalled by its excesses. Here an eminent observer, who knows firsthand the city’s threat, surveys the subject.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The urge to create literature was as strong in the mid-1800s as it is today, but rejections were brutal and the pay was even worse.</span></p>
<p>There is much talk today about online piracy, but 19th century authors like Melville, Dickens, and Poe struggled financially because of the lack of international copyright law.</p>
