There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.


The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe (ed. 1850)


There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.