 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 Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Page 130by Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pagesFull 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,...Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." The story then attributed the following to the Quoth the Ravens: "Who is this ghastly grim and ancient... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Roetzheim - Poetry - 2006 - 760 pages
...— perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven "Nevermore." Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, though its answer little meaning —... | |
 | 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,...Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." pursuing" (Prometheus Unbound 1.1.103-4). Knowing this rule, as Poe's readers did, they were being... | |
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