Description
Typed transcription of a poem by Han Dynasty poet Jia Yi, spelled "Kia Yi" in the typescript, translated by American missionary William Alexander Parsons Martin. As the typescript notes, "It reminds one of Poe's 'Raven.'" This document figures into footnote 16 of Mabbott's introduction to "The Raven."
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.
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