The Raven; with literary and historical commentary

Оглавление

Эдгар Аллан По. The Raven; with literary and historical commentary

The Raven; with literary and historical commentary

Table of Contents

Genesis

The Raven

History

Isadore

French

* * * * *

German

Hungarian

HUNGARIAN

Latin

LATIN

Fabrications

Parodies

Bibliography

Index

Отрывок из книги

Edgar Allan Poe, John Henry Ingram

Published by Good Press, 2021

.....

Thus the author of The Raven would lead his readers to believe that he was irresistibly impelled to select for his refrain the word "Nevermore," but, evidently, there are plenty of eligible words in the English language both embodying the long sonorous o in connection with r as the most producible consonant, and of sorrowful import. A perusal of Pike's poem, however, rendered it needless for Poe to seek far for the needed word, for, not only does the refrain to Isadore contain the antithetic word to never, and end with the ōre syllable, but in one line of the poem are "never" and "more," and in others the words "no more," "evermore," and "for ever more"; quite sufficient, all must admit, to have supplied the analytic mind of our poet with what he needed.

Thus far the theme, the refrain, and the word selected for the refrain, have been somewhat closely paralleled in the poem by Pike, whilst over the ​transmutation of the heroine's name from Isadore into Lenore no words need be wasted.

.....