The+Raven

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"I asked myself - 'Of all melancholy topics, what... is the most melancholy?' Death - was the obvious reply. 'And when,' I said, 'is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?'... 'When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world -- and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.'" -- //Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition," 1846//

"The Raven":
Click here for "The Raven" in ebook form. Click here for the Library of Congress's 1884 edition of "The Raven." Click here for the Library of Congress's 1875 edition of "The Raven." Click here to see "The Raven" as it was originally published in //The American Review// and //The New York Mirror//.

Raven Docs:
-- Full text of "The Raven" with line numbers -- Group Work assignment on "The Raven" -- "The Raven" Creative Writing assignment (108-word poem inspired by "The Raven")

Rhyme, Repetition, Allusion, and Vocabulary in "The Raven":
English 8-1 English 8-2 English 8-3 English 8-4 English Ocho Cinco

Raven Links:
The Interactive Raven The Raven at The Poe Decoder The Annotated Poe NPR's Present at the Creation: The Raven-- Click here to hear Basil Rathbone's reading of "The Raven." Rathbone is most famous for playing SHERLOCK HOLMES in the early 1940s. Curious Expeditions: Traveling and Exhuming the Extraordinary Past Philadelphia Odditites "The Raven" wikipedia page

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