“He is, along with Emily Dickinson, our major 19th-century American poet — and arguably, one of our first modern poets,” Enniss said.
GARBAGE.
Edgar Allen Poe is by far the most significant US poet.
I totally agree. He was a master of poetry and stories that could make you cry or raise the hair on the back of your neck.
Well, this guy is a Whitman scholar so what do you expect him to say?