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Poe: publication, correspondence and reception

Research into the surviving print, correspondence, performance and reception records represented by this archive.

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Audio or video5 June 1913 (repository catalogue)

Percy Hemus recites Poe’s “The Raven” with piano accompaniment by Gladys Craven. Listen to both sides of the Victor recording.

Book or periodical1884

Historical illustrated edition of Poe’s poem, including Doré’s illustrations and Edmund C. Stedman’s accompanying comment.

Historical source[1870] catalogue date; later overprint undated

Chromolithographic advertising label using a raven and the refrain “Quoth the Raven: Nevermore.”

Edgar Allan Poe (referenced work)Read source ↗

Book or periodical10 November 1858; letter dated 17 October 1858

Newspaper reprint headed “Letter About Edgar Poe,” marked as originating in the Home Journal. Preserved as a later historical recollection.

Nathaniel Parker Willis; Edgar Allan PoeRead source ↗

Book or periodicalApril 1846

Poe’s essay explaining his account of composing “The Raven,” preserved in the original periodical issue.

Book or periodical8 February 1845

Periodical printing of “The Raven,” signed Edgar A. Poe, with an introduction stating that the poem was copied from the American Review.

Book or periodicalFebruary 1845

Poem printed under the name “Quarles,” with the periodical’s introductory notice. Preserved within its bound-volume scan.

Book or periodical29 January 1845 (issue attribution not independently confirmed)

Newspaper-page facsimile with “The Raven” and an editorial introduction in the first column.

Manuscript or letter13 November 1841

Two-page handwritten letter from Willis to Poe concerning contributions to periodicals and Willis’s existing agreement with Godey.

Nathaniel Parker Willis; Edgar Allan PoeRead source ↗

Book or periodical27 December 1839

Front page of the Daily National Intelligencer containing bookseller notices for Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.