January 29 1845 : "Quoth The Raven "Nevermore" "
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
January 29, 2016 1:53am CST
Today in 1845 "The Raven" By Edgar Allen Poe was published in The New York Evening Mirror.
I wasn't really a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe in school, I guess it's because we covered so much of his work. My Senior year of high school I did attempt to memorize the entire poem to recite for extra credit in English.
Did you study his work in School?
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@topffer (42155)
• France
29 Jan 16
Poe, yes, quickly in high school. I know The Raven better, as it has been translated in France by Baudelaire and then by Mallarmé, 2 great poets. I remember to have seen this poem quoted by Théophile Gautier, which was a poet and a writer with many similarities with Poe. It was in a biography of Nerval, another poet, if my memory is good. Gautier wrote a 1002nd night in 1842, 3 years before Edgar Allen Poe. Baudelaire translated a part of Poe's writings. All in all, E.A. Poe is indirectly part of our literature
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@topffer (42155)
• France
29 Jan 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum You stroke a responsive chord : I have collected books from 19th C French writers during 30 years
. I have never been a great fan of Baudelaire, although I have had a preprint of his Flowers of Evil. I think that I have still somewhere (I am moving and I have more than 20000 books, all in boxes actually
) the first French translation of Poe. It was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" published in a French Magazine soon after the US original in the 1840's. The translator is unknown.
I am glad that you started this discussion. Many 19th C writers are unjustly forgotten today. In my mind it is the century which saw the best skillful writers
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. I have never been a great fan of Baudelaire, although I have had a preprint of his Flowers of Evil. I think that I have still somewhere (I am moving and I have more than 20000 books, all in boxes actually) the first French translation of Poe. It was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" published in a French Magazine soon after the US original in the 1840's. The translator is unknown.
I am glad that you started this discussion. Many 19th C writers are unjustly forgotten today. In my mind it is the century which saw the best skillful writers.@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jan 16
I have heard of Baudelaire. I think if we were to look more deeply we'd find many similarities between each Nation. Little things like this that give a "nod" to one another.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jan 16
We did "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Case of Amantillado" as well.
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@zebra2222 (5268)
• United States
29 Jan 16
I was a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe. I once wrote a parody of the Raven.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Jan 16
Same here. The teachers sure did want to impress upon us his works though.
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@JESSY3236 (22245)
• United States
29 Jan 16
I did study that poem in school and I love that poem. I do love his other work too.
