When Poe finished writing “The Raven” sometime near the end of 1844, his friend George Rex Graham was the first who read it. Poe had sent the poem to his friend to publish it in his magazine, Graham’s Magazine. Unfortunately, his friend refused to publish the poem. He found it too dark, too melancholic, too sad for the magazine’s readers.
When The Raven was published, a few months later in January 29, 1845 in the Evening Mirror, the publisher George Hooker admitted that “corrections” were done to the poem, without Poe’s knowledge and approval.
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature.
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First published 1847
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