Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Version Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875)

Edgar Allan Poe achieved virtually prompt fame dur­ing his life­time after the pub­li­ca­tion of The Raven (1845), however he nev­er felt that he obtained the recog­ni­tion he deserved. In some respects, he was proper. He was, in any case, paid solely 9 dol­lars for the poem, and he strug­gled earlier than and after its pub­li­ca­tion to…

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

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)

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…