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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

The Story of a Raven The kitchen has an outlook dear to the Tamil heart.

From Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

“Black Lodge,” produced by Beth Morrison Projects, was presented as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, but “The Raven” felt far more in the fringe-theater tradition.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

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

And “The Raven” might have worked best as the pilot for a creepy, old-style television series, featuring the writer embroiled in a different one of his own narratives each week.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2012

His 2003 two-CD retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” teemed with monologues, musical fragments and a handful of actual songs.

From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 28, 2011

When “The Raven” was published in 1845, a friend said of its effect in New York, “Everybody has been raven-mad about his last poem.”

From Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader by Louise Manly