The Raven Summary
Edgar Allan Poe

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The Raven Summary

"The .Raven" was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845, and received popular and critical praise. Sources of 'The Raven" have been suggested, such as "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, and two poems, "To Allegra Florence" and "Isadore" by Thomas Holly Chivers. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, "The Raven" has become one of America's most famous poems, partly as...

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Project Gutenberg eBooks (1)

The Raven

10,372 words, approx. 35 pages

Title:  The Raven Author:  Edgar Allan Poe Commentator:  Edmund C. Stedman Illustrator:  Gustave Dore Release Date:  November 30, 2005 [EBook #17192] Language:  English C... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe Biographies (8)

Edgar Allan Poe

1,478 words, approx. 5 pages

Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

5,782 words, approx. 20 pages

On Thursday, September 27, 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe left Richmond, Virginia by boat, heading for his home in New York. Poe never reached his destination. After visiting a friend in Baltimore on Se... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

34,389 words, approx. 115 pages

With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence o... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

8,692 words, approx. 29 pages

Popular but not always respected in his own time, Edgar Poe is significant today not only for the quality of his best work but also for his influence on later writers. His poems were admired, especial... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

8,555 words, approx. 29 pages

The story of Edgar Allan Poe's life remains one of the most disputed and slandered in the pages of American biography, despite conscious attempts to revise the story and rehabilitate the life. Decaden... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

10,729 words, approx. 36 pages

Edgar Allan Poe 's importance as a short-story writer may be seen in his pioneering contributions to the genre, in his theory of the tale, in the rich variety, meaning, and significance of his stories... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

36,084 words, approx. 121 pages

From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most i... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe

36,259 words, approx. 121 pages

Biography EssayWith a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantia... Read more

Essays & Analysis (25)

Critical Essay by David Baguley

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Critical Essay by Dave Smith

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Critical Essay by Edgar Allan Poe

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Critical Essay by Daniel E. Lees

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Critical Essay by J. R. Hammond

876 words, approx. 3 pages

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Critical Essay by Leland S. Person

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Critical Essay by E. Kate Stewart

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Critical Essay by Dennis W. Eddings

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Critical Essay by Dennis Pahl

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Critical Essay by Daneen Wardrop

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Critical Essay by William Freedman

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Critical Essay by Jorie Graham

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Critical Essay by John Phelps Fruit

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Critical Essay by Betsy Erkkila

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Critical Essay by Della Courson

1,995 words, approx. 7 pages

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Critical Essay by George H. Green

8,856 words, approx. 30 pages

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Critical Essay by Andrew J. Green

576 words, approx. 2 pages

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Critical Essay by Howard Mumford Jones

6,343 words, approx. 22 pages

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Critical Essay by Joseph Jones

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Critical Essay by Francis F. Burch

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Critical Essay by Irwin Porges

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"The Raven" - a Critical Deconstruction

725 words, approx. 3 pages

Edgar Allen Poe's journey into the realm of death, fear and the macabre, "The Raven" is an exploration into the loneliness and despair associated with the loss of a loved one. Through the clever u... Read more

A Gothic Comparison: the Raven Vs. Seven

1,238 words, approx. 5 pages

What gives a scary story its dark and gloomy characteristics? Looking closely, it becomes apparent all scary stories have the same elements in them, and these features are all aspects pertaining to Go... Read more

"The Raven"

443 words, approx. 2 pages

"The Raven" To represent an abstract idea or thought, writers often use symbolism in their stories or poems. In "The Raven" Edgar Allan Poe uses several symbols throughout the poem. Poe uses a rave... Read more

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