ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A lot of fans know Edgar Allan Poe earned just $9 for “The Raven, ” now one of the most popular poems of all time, read out loud by schoolteachers the world over.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edgar Allan Poe sold “The Raven” for $9 to a literary magazine called The American Review, which printed the poem in their February 1845 issue under the pseudonym “Quarles.” However, an advance copy of the poem was published under Poe’s name in the New York magazine The Evening Mirror in January of the same year.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sources disagree on how many works of fiction Poe wrote, although most estimate it was at least 70 or 80. For January 19, 2022, the 213th anniversary of his birth, here is a ranking of ten of his best stories.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Raven, best-known poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845 and collected in The Raven and Other Poems the same year. Poe achieved instant national fame with the publication of this melancholy evocation of lost love.

Detailed explanation-5: -On January 29, 1845, American author Edgar Allan Poe’s famously eerie poem “The Raven” was published in the New York Evening Mirror. Equally praised and panned by critics of the day, the poem made Poe famous throughout America and England.