What's this nonsense about T writing Poe. Poe wrote Poe - but he was drunk at the time.

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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hey-hey-hey! This is the Mark Twain Forum-- why are we chatting about some 
> Englishman who did not even write any of the things that have been 
> attributed to him for centuries?
> 
> Instead, we should be soberly discussing all of the other authors whose 
> works were actually written by Twain (according to Partridge and Morton's 
> THE MOST REMARKABLE ECHO IN THE WORLD). What else did Twain write? All of 
> the works of Poe, Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, and even True 
> Williams, plus all of the forgeries by Thomas J. Wise. Yessir, it's all 
> right there in the Partridge and Morton book (and four American Book 
> Collector articles they also wrote). They make their case as well as any who 
> have discredited that "Wm Shagspur" character who could not even spell his 
> own name. Twain on the other hand was a busy busy fellow, and to judge by 
> the stuff he wrote under those other pen-names, quite a talent.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Robison" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:34 AM
> Subject: Shakespeare
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>> For my money, James Shapiro's "Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare"
>> demolishes all claims by any pretenders to the bard's mantle.
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