1849-10-20

The Raven — The Cecil Whig, 1849-10-20

Newspaper printing of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, on page 1, columns 2–3. All 18 poem stanzas are present.

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Posthumous newspaper printing; no claim that this is the poem’s first printing.

Date
1849-10-20
Credits
Edgar Allan Poe (poem author)
Publisher
The Cecil Whig
Where to find it
1 original newspaper page; Image PDF: 1 page; Text PDF: 3 pages
Reference collection
Library of Congress, Chronicling America

AI-assisted poem transcription visually checked by Codex against this scan; no separate human proofread. All 18 stanzas included. Line wraps and quotation marks regularized; scan is authoritative for typography and faint punctuation. One ink-obscured word is explicitly marked.

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Image PDF

AI-assisted poem transcription visually checked by Codex against this scan; no separate human proofread. All 18 stanzas included. Line wraps and quotation marks regularized; scan is authoritative for typography and faint punctuation. One ink-obscured word is explicitly marked.

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Original scan — full newspaper page

AI-assisted poem transcription visually checked by Codex against this scan; no separate human proofread. All 18 stanzas included. Line wraps and quotation marks regularized; scan is authoritative for typography and faint punctuation. One ink-obscured word is explicitly marked.

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Text PDF

AI-assisted poem transcription visually checked by Codex against this scan; no separate human proofread. All 18 stanzas included. Line wraps and quotation marks regularized; scan is authoritative for typography and faint punctuation. One ink-obscured word is explicitly marked.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven.” The Cecil Whig, 1849-10-20, p. 1, cols. 2–3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

Public domain historical US newspaper published in 1849. Digitized source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

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