James Earl Jones (RIP) Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Tune of Myself”

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Word: With the unhappy cross­ing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re convey­ing again a put up from our archive–one fea­tur­ing Jones learn­ing two nice Amer­i­can poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whit­man. These learn­ings first appeared on our website in 2014. For all its many flaws the orig­i­nal Star Wars tril­o­gy nev­er strayed…

Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884)

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One of many busiest, most in-demand artists of the nineteenth cen­tu­ry, Gus­tave Doré made his identify illus­trat­ing works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Mil­ton, and Dante. Within the 1860s, he cre­at­ed one of the crucial mem­o­rable and pop­u­lar illus­trat­ed edi­tions of Cer­vantes’ Don Quixote, whereas on the similar time com­plet­ing a set of engrav­ings…