The Raven And Other Poems

By Edgar Allan Poe

Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years after his death. This edition of The Raven and Other Poems is the work of a master, and includes “The Raven,” “Lenore,” “Annabel Lee.” One of the best-known American writers, Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry influenced the American Romantic and French Symbolist movements in the nineteenth century.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Apr 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781443425353

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, and critic.  Best known for his macabre prose work, including the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his writing has influenced literature in the United States and around the world.

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The Raven and Other Poems

Edgar Allan Poe

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CONTENTS

Lenore

The Raven

Annabel Lee

Tamerlane

The Haunted Palace

About the Author

About the Series

Copyright

About the Publisher

Lenore

Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!

Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;

And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or never more!

See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!

Come! let the burial rite be read—the funeral song be sung!—

An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young—

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,

And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her—that she died!

How shall the ritual, then, be read?—the requiem how be sung

By you—by yours, the evil eye,—by yours, the slanderous tongue

That did to death the innocent that died, and died so young?"

Peccavimus; but rave not

Reviews for The Raven And Other Poems

[mathewbridle · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An absolute master of verse and prose

[saraellen_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I love Edgar Allen Poe.  

[nm.spring08.j.huapeo · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

It was very slow and calm in the beginning not to much excitement. It didn’t have my attention but I read it to see if I would understand it a little more then what I thought about it. I had given up on this book because I wasn’t finding any interest and I didn’t really understand its way of explaining things or what they were doing. Yea, there were some good parts in the book I am not going to lie but not to the point where I wanted to read more about it. It’s a good book for those who are into like poem type readers or those who know how to read in the way they talked back then as like in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ It has some mystery that is quit interesting. In some moments when I wasn’t reading the book I read the poems in the back of the book to see what they were about. They were long and not to the point. I had to read it a few times before I actually got what he was talking about.