Raven Illustrations of James Carling, The: Poe's Classic in by Christopher P. Semtner

By Christopher P. Semtner

some of the most well known poems within the English language, Edgar Allan Poe�s �The Raven� has delighted generations of readers. In 1882, the Anglo-American artist James Carling made up our minds to provide the definitive sequence of illustrations for the poem. Carling�s extraordinary photos discover the darkest recesses of Poe�s masterpiece, its hidden symbolism and its unusual good looks. even if the sequence remained unpublished on the time of the artist�s early loss of life in 1887, the drawings reemerged fifty years later, after they entered the gathering of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond. There they covered the blood-red partitions of a Raven Room devoted to their demonstrate. For the 1st time, writer and Poe historian Christopher P. Semtner reproduces the complete sequence and tells the tale in the back of those haunting works.

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