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| | [minstrels] The Raven -- Edgar Allan Poe |
 | | The atmosphere created by Poe especially appeals to the readers senses- the narrator apprises the reader that it is during the month of December, and that the narrator is sitting alone next to a fire, attempting, vainly, to dull the pain of his lost Lenore by reading a book. |
 | | His "The Raven" (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature. |
 | | In Poe's masterpieces the double contents of his temper, of his mind, and of his art are fused into a oneness of tone, structure, and movement, the more effective, perhaps, as it is compounded of various elements. |
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