Title:  The Raven

Author:  Edgar Allan Poe

Commentator:  Edmund C. Stedman

Illustrator:  Gustave Dore

Release Date:  November 30, 2005 [EBook #17192]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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Transcriber’s Notes: 

In the List of Illustrations I restored a missing single quote after “Lenore!”: 
  “‘Wretch,’ I cried, ’thy God hath lent thee—­by these angels he hath sent thee
  Respite—­respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!’”

The List of Illustrations uses ‘visitor’ where the poem and the actual illustration use ‘visiter’.

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THE RAVEN

By
Edgar Allan Poe

Illustrated
by Gustave Dore

[Illustration]

WITH COMMENT BY EDMUND C. STEDMAN

NEW YORK

Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square
1884

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

All rights reserved.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS WITH NAMES OF ENGRAVERS

Title-page, designed by Elihu Vedder. Frederick Juengling.

“Nevermore.” H.  Claudius, G.J.  Buechner.

ANATKH. H.  Claudius.

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.”
          
                                          R.A.  Muller.

“Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.”
          
                                          R.G.  Tietze.

“Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—­sorrow for the lost Lenore.”
                                                    H.  Claudius.

“Sorrow for the lost Lenore.” W.  Zimmermann.

“For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—­
                                          Nameless here for evermore.”
                                            Frederick Juengling.

“’’T is some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—­
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.’”
                                                  W.  Zimmermann.