"The Raven"
"Chinese legends and lyrics by W[illiam] A[lexander] P[arsons] Martin... Second edition"
Details
Title
"Chinese legends and lyrics by W[illiam] A[lexander] P[arsons] Martin... Second edition"
Creator
William Alexander Parsons Martin
Contributor
Unknown
Format
Typescript transcription
Description
Typescript transcription of the postscript to a poem by Han Dynasty poet Jia Yi, here spelled Kia Yi. The poem has been a suspected foreign-language influence on "The Raven," along with some others in Italian and Persion. See footnote 16 to Mabbott's introduction to "The Raven" in his edition. See also the typescript of the poem in question elsewhere in this file folder.
Relation
Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Source
Papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries; “The Raven,” in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. I: Poems, ed. T.O. Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969), 350-374.