title: The Raven: With The Philosophy of Composition
author:  Edgar Allan Poe 
description: "once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..." thus begins perhaps the most-quoted poem ever written in the English Language. Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is illustrated with Alen James Robinson's masterful etchings and wood engravings
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  Edgar Allan Poe's  
  
  
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  [Preface](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000006068)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Memoir](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000007692)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Poems of Later Life](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000056958)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Dedication](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000057035)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Preface](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000057213)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [The Raven](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000058378)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [The Bells](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000067337)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Ulalume](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000073702)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [To Helen](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000079471)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Annabel Lee](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000083987)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [A Valentine](text00000_split_000.html#filepos0000086670)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [An Enigma](text00000_split_000.html#filepos000