Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” beginning
“Once upon a midnight dreary,”was published on this day
in the New York Evening Mirror in 1845.
Poe’s dark and macabre work reflected his own tumultuous
and difficult life. Born in Boston in 1809,
Poe was orphaned at age three and went to live with the
family of a Richmond, Virginia, businessman.
Poe studied at the University of Virginia but was expelled
for gambling. He later enrolled briefly at a military
academy.
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