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Joy Lanzendorfer <\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>present 9 Mournful Facts About Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 1. AS POE WAS WRITING THE POEM, HIS WIFE WAS DEATHLY ILL.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> 6. “THE RAVEN” WAS AN IMMEDIATE HIT.<\/span><\/strong> And then there were the parodies. Within a month after “The Raven”<\/i> came out, there was a parody poem, “The Owl,” written by \u201cSarles.\u201d Others soon followed, including “The Whippoorwill<\/i>,” “The Turkey<\/i>,” “The Gazelle<\/i>,” and “The Parrot<\/i>.” You can read many of themhere. Abraham Lincoln found one parody, “The Polecat,” so hilarious that he decided to look up “The Raven.” He ended up memorizing the poem.<\/p>\n 7. “THE RAVEN” MADE POE INTO A CELEBRITY \u2026<\/span><\/strong> Joy Lanzendorfer and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 9 Mournful Facts About Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 1. AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,17,72,53,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-history","category-horror","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13796,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions\/13796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWhen Poe was writing “The Raven<\/i>,” his wife, Virginia, was suffering from tuberculosis. It was a weird marriage\u2014Virginia was Poe\u2019s first cousin and only 13 years old when they married\u2014but there\u2019s no doubt that Poe loved her deeply. Having lost his mother, brother, and foster mother to tuberculosis, he knew the toll the disease would take. “The Raven”\u00a0<\/i>is a poem written by a man who\u2019d lost many loved ones, and was soon expecting to lose one more.<\/p>\n
\nAfter Graham’s Magazine <\/em>rejected the poem, Poe published it in The American Review<\/em> under the pseudonym \u201cQuarles.\u201d In January 1845, it came out in The New York Mirror<\/em> under Poe\u2019s real name. Around the country, it was reprinted, reviewed, and otherwise immortalized. It soon became so ubiquitous, it was used in advertising.<\/p>\n
\nPoe was soon so recognizable that children followed him in the street, flapping their arms and cawing. Then he\u2019d turn around and say, \u201cnevermore!\u201d and they would run away, shrieking. Trying to capitalize off this fame, he gave lectures that included dramatic readings of the poem. They were apparently something to see. His lecture was \u201ca rhapsody of the most intense brilliancy \u2026 He kept us entranced for two hours and a half,\u201d said one attendee. Yet another said that Poe would turn down the lamps and recite \u201cthose wonderful lines in the most melodious of voice.\u201d Another said, \u201cTo hear him repeat\u00a0‘The Raven<\/i>,’ which he does very quietly, is an event in one\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"