O corvo

By Poe and Machado de Assis

No poema O corvo, de Edgar Allan Poe, um jovem atormentado pela perda de sua amada Lenora faz perguntas a um corvo que pousa em sua janela. Usando rimas e métricas – Poe classificou a exatidão métrica dos 108 versos como um "problema matemático" –, o autor constrói um clima macabro no qual o jovem anseia por esperanças proféticas da ave misteriosa.

Tradução original de Machado de Assis.

• Language: Português
• Publisher: Editora Itapuca
• Release date: Jun 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9786586655940

Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. His parents, both touring actors, died before he was three. He was raised by John Allan, a prosperous Virginian merchant. Poe published his first volume of poetry while still a teenager. He worked as an editor for magazines in Philadelphia, Richmond and New York, and achieved respect as a literary critic. In 1836, he married his thirteen year-old cousin. It was only with the publication of The Raven and other Poems in 1845 that he achieved national fame as a writer. Poe died in mysterious circumstances in 1849.

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