[8eca1] ~R.e.a.d% *O.n.l.i.n.e# The Raven: With An Introduction by A.C. O'Neal - Edgar Allan Poe ~e.P.u.b* Online

The classic dark narrative poem of lost love that exemplified the Romantic period of American literature with an ominous raven rapping at a chamber door. Beginning with the phrase, Once upon a midnight dreary, Poe sets the stage for a melancholy descent into madness as a mourning man learns from a bird of ill-omen that he will never be free from the loss of his love