It’s one of the most recognizable (and spookiest) poems in English. When Poe was writing “The Raven,” his wife, Virginia, was suffering from tuberculosis. It was a weird marriage—Virginia ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.

He sold the now-iconic poem to a literary magazine, The American Review, for its February 1845 issue, wrote SparkNotes — for a grand total of $9. However, that same year in January, a New York ...

one a collection of short stories and the other of poems. Poe, whom TIME called in 1930 “a morose genius who wrote horrible stories magnificently,” claimed to have written “The Raven ...

Two five-week-old raven chicks, Henry and Poe, have arrived at their new home in the Tower of London. "Troublemakers" Henry ...