The Raven (Dead Books & Minds, #23) (Penguin Classic Horror) (Classic Edgar Allan Poe)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Gustave Dore (Illustrator)

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is the poet of the night world, of the inexplicable, the uncanny. His poems do not analyse, they do not explain: they exist with the intensity of hallucinations. In the breathtakingly seductive beauty of 'To Helen' - 'Like those Nicean barks of yore, / that gently o'er a perfumed sea...', or the claustrophobic horror of "The Raven", Poe offers haunting alternative realities, as strange - and strangely familiar - as our dreams and nightmares. Yet Poe was more than a poet of American gothic. He was translated by Baudelaire and Mallarme, becoming a key figure...Read more
  • ISBN10 0486290727
  • ISBN13 9780486290720
  • Publish Date 1 February 2000 (first published 15 October 1986)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 11 January 2023
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 64
  • Language English