Spiritualists produced these celebrity ghost writings to demonstrate the authenticity of their practice and the radical possibility of the living and the dead merging consciousnesses.ĭepression and language: analysing Edgar Allan Poe's writings to solve the mystery of his death Magazines and collections produced “original” posthumous texts on a monthly basis. The fever for spirit writing covered several well-known deceased writers and historical figures. Critics commented that, if mediumship is real, the Resurrexi “is unquestionably the most astonishing thing that Spiritualism has produced”, due to its accurate representation of Poe’s style.
Borrowing well-known lines and phrases from The Raven, Doten makes use of the hypnotic repetitive sounds and rhymes common to Poe’s poetry. In her introduction, Doten describes the “mental intoxication” she experienced in encountering the turbulent spirit of Poe.Īmong the six texts is Resurrexi, a sequel to Poe’s famous 1845 poem The Raven. Lizzie Doten, a Massachusetts spiritualist lecturer, performed and published six “Poe” poems under the title Poems from the Inner Life (1864). These spirit poets really did believe they had Poe’s “brain in their hands”.
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