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The Raven and The Philosophy of Composition

by Edgar Allan Poe

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A grieving student, alone at midnight with his books, admits a raven that answers every question about his lost Lenore with a single word. Alongside the 1845 poem stands Poe’s 1846 essay claiming he composed it step by step like a mathematical problem, choosing the length, the refrain and the melancholy theme before writing a line.

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