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Poetry Xtras » "The Coliseum" by Edgar Allan Poe

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"The Coliseum" appeared in the Baltimore 'Saturday Visitor' ('sic') in 1833, and was republished in the 'Southern Literary Messenger' for August 1835, as "A Prize Poem."
—John H. Ingram
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