SOURCE: Smith, Dave. “Edgar Allan Poe and the Nightmare Ode.” Southern Humanities Review 29, no. 1 (winter 1995): 1-10.
In the following essay, Smith examines “The Raven” as an expression of Poe's despair as an orphan and an outcast.
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