Friday Photo: Poe Goes Pop

“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit,” Edgar Allen Poe once said (he granted a pass to the case of song-writing), and there’s no telling what the author and critic would have made of his own infamy as celebrated in “Evermore: The Persistence of Poe.” On view through November 22 at the Grolier Club in New York, the exhibition brings together a stunning array of Poe-related artifacts, all drawn from the personal collection of Grolier member and Poe pro Susan Jaffe Tane.