Poe by Peter Ackroyd

Author:Peter Ackroyd
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Autobiography, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780701169886
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2008-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The Bird

At the beginning of 1845 Poe met a journalistic friend in a New York street and confided in him.

“Wallace,” said Poe, “I have just written the greatest poem that ever was written.”

“Have you?” replied Wallace. “That is a fine achievement.”

“Would you like to hear it?” asked Poe.

“Most certainly,” said Wallace.

Thereupon Poe recited the verses of “The Raven.” He had been working on it during the period of retreat in the Brennan farmhouse, and he put the last touches to it in the apartment on Greenwich Street. On January 29 it was published in the Evening Mirror, and was reprinted in other New York periodicals. It became a sensation. It was his most celebrated poem, and indeed remains one of the most famous poems in American literature:

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

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