 Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly...  The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 265by James Stuart Laurie - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Hal Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 358 pages
...it." Miles handed him the story containing the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven: "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said,...name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." The story then attributed the following to the Quoth the Ravens: "Who is this ghastly... | |
 | Rich Mintzer - Education - 2005 - 56 pages
...creature the poet and inventor of the detective story Edgar Alla'n foe is referring to this poem: in Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore." Interpreting from the underlined descriptions, you might guess that the bird Poe is describing is a... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...unapparencies. Perhaps no passage in the poem makes a more startling display of that view than the following: Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." pursuing" (Prometheus Unbound 1.1.103-4). Knowing this rule, as Poe's readers did,... | |
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