Lenore

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

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About this edition

In 1845 a single poem made Edgar Allan Poe famous overnight. The Raven and Other Poems gathered around it the darkest and most musical verse he had yet written: the tolling grief of “Lenore,” the drowned majesty of “The City in the Sea,” the burning rapture of “Israfel” and “Dream-Land,” and the youthful visions of “Al Aaraaf” and “Tamerlane.”

This edition takes its cover title from Poe’s recurring elegy for a beautiful dead woman, the lost love whose name tolls through his most haunted verse. Hypnotic, gothic, and obsessed with beauty, death and the beyond, these poems remain the touchstone of mourning in English.

It keeps faith with Poe’s first edition, his Preface, his dedication to Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, and every poem in its 1845 order, so the work may, as he wished, circulate as he wrote it. Bound behind an original painting.

Details

• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
• The Raven and Other Poems (1845), complete and in its original order
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 100 pages