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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 14, 2019
    ISBN9781535867917
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

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      A Study Guide (New Edition) for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" - Gale

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      The Raven

      Edgar Allan Poe

      1845

      Introduction

      Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven (1845) is as famous as any poem in the English language. It is also the most memorized by students in school. At the same time, hardly any poem is so disapproved of by the great English and American poets that followed Poe. The poem was originally published in the New York Evening Mirror and made a sensation that elevated the poem to national fame. It tells the story of a grieving lover into whose room a raven happens to fly, one that can say the single word Nevermore. Asking the bird as if it were a prophet about the fate of himself and his lost Lenore in this world and the next but always receiving the same word in answer, the lover drives himself into a melancholy frenzy of despair. The main controversy with the poem is that it tells its story in absolutely flawless meter, too perfect to serve its dramatic purpose in the view of many later poets, from W. B. Yeats to T. S. Eliot. The poem has been republished many times. It is available in The New Oxford Book of American Verse (1976).

      Author Biography

      Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston. His parents, David and Elizabeth, were actors in a traveling troupe. Within two years, Poe's father had abandoned the family, and his mother had died of consumption (tuberculosis). Poe and his older brother, William Henry, were taken in as orphans by John Allan (the source of Poe's middle name), a wealthy slave dealer in Richmond, Virginia, but they were not legally adopted. Poe received an excellent secondary education, particularly at schools in England, where the family stayed when Poe was sixteen to seventeen years old. Allan refused to pay tuition at the University of Virginia for Poe, using Poe's gambling and drinking as an excuse. As a result, Poe was able to attend only one semester of college.

      Left without resources, Poe joined the army, where he served for two years. Poe was posted to Boston and there published Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827. This was a self-publication for which Poe paid the costs, but that was not

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