‘Darkness there and nothing more …’
January 29, 2025. The New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845. This work and the author achieved instant fame and even today, we like to reread this magnificent poem for its macabre Gothic thrills about the death of Lenore.
Please join me in celebrating this exquisite poem with Basil Rathbone on the anniversary of Poe’s publication.
Listen to the poem, a dramatic reading by Basil Rathbone here:
It is fascinating to note that author Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as William Butler Yeats, did not have much praise for the poem. Emerson said that he “saw nothing in it.”
You can read the full poem at Poe Stories: https://poestories.com/read/raven
For more of Poe’s work here at Reading Fiction Blog, free short stories, see below. And more authors in the INDEX above.
Poe, Edgar Allan Spirits of the Dead (poem) January 19, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan The Oval Portrait, January 22, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan A Descent Into the Maelstrom, May 28, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan The Premature Burial, September 24, 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan The Fall of the House of Usher, April 15, 2014
Poe, Edgar Allan Tale of Ragged Mountains, October 28, 2014
Poe, Edgar Allan Ligeia, October 27, 2015
Poe, Edgar Allan Murders in the Rue Morgue, September 6, 2016
Poe, Edgar Allan Some Words With A Mummy, October 25, 2016
Poe, Edgar Allan The Shadow, September 12, 2017
Poe, Edgar Allan The Black Cat, January 16, 2018
Poe, Edgar Allan Masque of the Red Death, January 25, 2022
Poe, Edgar Allan Mesmeric Revelation, January 19, 2024
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