Raven and Other Favorite Poems, The

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• Silence (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Sleeper (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• Romance (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Raven (1849): Edgar Allan Poe
• Lenore (1849): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Lake: To - (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• Israfel (1945): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Haunted Palace (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Happiest Day - the Happiest Hour (1827): Edgar Allan Poe
• For Annie (1849): Edgar Allan Poe
• Fairy-Land (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• Evening Star (1827): Edgar Allan Poe
• Eulalie - A Song (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• Eldorado (1849): Edgar Allan Poe
• A Dream within a Dream (1849): Edgar Allan Poe
• Dreams (1827): Edgar Allan Poe
• Dream-Land (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• A Dream (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Conqueror Worm (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Coliseum (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• The City in the Sea (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Bells (1849): Edgar Allan Poe
• Annabel Lee (1850): Edgar Allan Poe
• Alone (1829): Edgar Allan Poe
• The Valley of Unrest (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• Ulalume (1849): Edgar Allan Poe
• To the River (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• To One in Paradise (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• To My Mother (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• To M.L.S. (1850): Edgar Allan Poe
• To Helen (1831): Edgar Allan Poe
• To Zante (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• To Science (1845): Edgar Allan Poe
• Spirits of the Dead (1839): Edgar Allan Poe
• Stanzas (1845): Edgar Allan Poe

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One of the most famous poems in the English language, The Raven first appeared in the January 29, 1845 edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-thirties and a well-known poet, critic and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. The Raven remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of a dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature. This volume contains The Raven and 40 others of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable poems, among them The Bells, Ulalume, Israfel, To Helen, The Conqueror Worm, Eldorado and Annabel Lee. Together they reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe's personality - his idealism his visionary qualities his responsiveness to beauty, to love and to women and his susceptibility to the eerie and the morbid. They reveal, too, his virtuoso command of poetic language, rhythms and figures of speech - a command that would make his one of the most distinctive voices in all of poetry.