"The Raven"

Joseph Jones, "'The Raven' and 'The Raven': Another Source of Poe's Poem," American Literature 30.2 (May 1958): 185-193.
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Joseph Jones

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This nine-page essay was pulled from the May 1958 issue of American Literature. In the essay Joseph Jones argues that an anonymous poem titled "The Raven; Or the Power of Conscience" from the March 1839 issue of the English magazine Fraser's is a more credible British pretext for Poe's "The Raven" than "Grip," the raven in Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. "Grip" is traditionally seen as the literary ancestor of Poe's raven. See also Harry T. Baker's column on "The Raven" from a 1910 issue of The Nation, also found in this file on Poe's Poem.

Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

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.