Despite gaining national renown after “The Raven” was published in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe never enjoyed great financial success. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror ...

The plot of “The Raven” is one of the most familiar in American literature: A bereaved scholar, mourning his lost love, is driven insane by grief (and a talking raven). The storyline must have been ...

Listen to a compilation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” read by Megan Marshall, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Lewis, Matthew Pearl, Jeffrey Meyers, Jerome McGann, Stuart Gordon, James ...

Here at Untapped New York, we have a special relationship to “The Raven,” the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe that was published 175 years on January 29, 1845. That’s because in 2012, our writer ...

After the extremely successful release of Poe’s “The Raven,” he became famous for his dramatic readings of the poem. Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated actor Denis O’Hare (“This Is Us,” “American ...

“Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and weary . . . .” Thus begins the most celebrated spooky poem by the most celebrated of spooky 19th-century American writers. For readers ages 6 ...

Before William Hill wrote a note of “The Raven” – a tone poem for orchestra and chorus based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same name – the principal timpanist for the Colorado Symphony spent months ...

IF YOU have read Charles Dickens’ interestingnovel Barnaby Rudge, you will recall that poor Barnaby had a pet raven named Grip. The raven was almost a part of Barnaby because Barnaby carried the bird ...