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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN 1885 INFLUENTIAL POE BIOGRAPHER AND CRITIC JOHN HENRY INGRAM proclaimed "The Raven" the most popular lyric poem in the world": Promoting the poem's transatlantic renown from his vantage point in England, Ingram...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Aberystwyth Studies[(essay date 1932) In the following essay, Green considers the life experiences that may have influenced Poe's writing of "The Raven," and discusses whether or not Poe's essays "The Poetic Principle" and "The Philosophy...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: American Literature[(essay date May 1958) In the following essay, Jones argues that "The Raven; or The Power of Conscience," a poem that appeared in 1839, may have been an inspiration for Poe's similarly titled poem of 1945.] Never will...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Stewart suggests that "The Raven" may have been inspired by Samuel Warren's story "The Bracelets," which appeared in 1832.] Although a fair number of sources for Poe's most...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureRaven, The Best-known poem by Poe, Edgar Allan, published in 1845 and collected in The Raven and Other Poems the same year. Poe achieved instant national fame with the publication of this melancholy evocation of lost...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Mind and Art of Poe's Poetry[(essay date 1899) In the following essay, Fruit discusses the relationship between "The Raven" and "Lenore," another poem published by Poe in 1845.] Before 1845 Poe had settled in his own mind that the belief, that...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Eddings analyzes "The Raven" as a work of satire and parody.] "The Raven" is undoubtedly Poe's most famous poem, although its defects have not gone unnoticed. The...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Western Humanities Review[(essay date spring 1955) In the following essay, Jones explores the archetype of the "Anonymous Young Man" of nineteenth-century literature as it appears in "The Raven."] Mr. Van Wyck Brooks in an early book once...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Poetry for Students[Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. His books include The Gods of Winter, 1991, and Can Poetry Matter? Gioia notes that “The Raven,” at one time deemed “the most popular lyric poem in the work,” has nonetheless been...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Poetry for Students[B. J. Bolden is an Assistant Professor of English at Chicago State University, Chicago, IL. She is the managing editor of Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas at Chicago State University and the author of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: PMLA[(essay date 1951) In the following essay, Gravely summarizes and assesses several critics’ suggestions of works that influenced the creation of “The Raven.”] As an aftermath of a popularity which, in addition to being...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Markham Review[In the following essay, Tuerk examines Hartmann's fascination with Poe's “The Raven” and reprints Hartmann's essay “How Poe Wrote The Raven.”] Since the publication of “The Philosophy of Composition” in Graham's...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Poe[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Hutchisson details the composition of “The Raven” and provides a close reading of the text.] New-York, Sunday MorningApril 7 [1844] just after breakfastMy dear Muddy,We have...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Education[(essay date May 1900) In the following essay, Courson offers her perspective on the significance of Poe's commentary on the composition of "The Raven."] There is an amusing anecdote related of Poe. It is said that he...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Edgar Allan Poe[(essay date 1963) In the following excerpt, Porges offers a biographical context for the writing and publication of "The Raven."] This was to be known as "the house where The Raven was written." Since the days when he...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: American Literature[(essay date 1938) In the following essay, Colton discusses how the friendship between Poe and George Hooker Colton, editor of the American Review, influenced the final form of “The Raven.”] Although the story of the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: College English[(essay date December 1942) In the following excerpt, Green opines that Poe's essay, "The Poetic Principle," offers a reasonable explanation of the genesis and development of "The Raven."] "The Raven" The widespread...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date autumn 1990) In the following essay, Person offers a critical assessment of the relationship between Poe's famous poem and the essay, "The Philosophy of Composition," in which he purports to explain the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism: History Theory, Interpretation[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Freedman conducts an analysis of structure and symbolism in "The Raven."] In an otherwise uninspired 1845 notice of "The Raven" and Other Poems, the anonymous reviewer for the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Papers on Language and Literature[(essay date winter 1970) In the following essay, Lees suggests that the inspiration of Poe's poem, "The Raven," may have come from a poem titled "The Owl," published in 1826.] One of the most convincing sources for...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center