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Title: The Raven

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Commentator: Edmund C. Stedman

Illustrator: Gustave Dore

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

Language: English

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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--