Description
Typed transcript of "Poe's Great Poem," a brief preface to the printing of "The Raven" in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier, November 3, 1849, by editor, Poe's friend, and one-time owner of a pet raven, Henry B. Hirst.
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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