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• Raven, The
  Raven, The

  noun

  a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
• “The Raven”
  “The Raven”

  (1845) A poem by Edgar Allan Poe. A man mourning for his lost lover is visited by a raven that tells him he will see her “nevermore.” The poem begins with these famous lines:

  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

  While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

  As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

Raven, The

American  

noun

1. a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.

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“The Raven” Cultural  

1. (1845) A poem by Edgar Allan Poe. A man mourning for his lost lover is visited by a raven that tells him he will see her “nevermore.” The poem begins with these famous lines:

   Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

   Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

   While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

   As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

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Raven, The “The Raven”

The House of Usher was released in 1960 and was followed by a string of others including The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, by a journalist who covered Jonestown for the San Francisco Examiner, also got two votes.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2018

Photo by Kathleen Raven The holy grail of energy storage may lie in chemical bonds, but a process for making this happen remains unknown.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 4, 2013

Explains Raven: "The heroine of a television series must never be less than prominent."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Lenore," The Raven, "The Sleeper," "To One in Paradise," and "Ulalume" form a tenebrose symphony,—and "Annabel Lee," written last of all, shows that one theme possessed him to the end.

From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe lived a while in Baltimore; his picture, also captured by an unidentified daguerreotypist, shows the writer of “The Raven” looking characteristically glum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Madness of Poe, based on “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021

He became a fixture at the local library, where he stumbled on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” in the third grade, a signal moment.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 8, 2017

The fannish obsessiveness that animates “The Raven” is its most appealing attribute, and even Poe scholars can forgive it for discarding the biographical record in favor of playful, gruesome fantasy.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2012

At Shrewsbury Medenham was vouchsafed a gleam of frosty humor by Mrs. Devar’s anxiety lest her son might have obeyed her earlier injunctions, and kept tryst at “The Raven” after all.

From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Louis Tracy

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