how did the critics respond to it?
The "New World" said, "Everyone reads the Poem and praises it ... justly, we think, for it seems to us full of originality and power."
The Raven
The "New World" said, "Everyone reads the Poem and praises it ... justly, we think, for it seems to us full of originality and power." "The Pennsylvania Inquirer" reprinted it with the heading "A Beautiful Poem". Elizabeth Barrett wrote to Poe, "Your 'Raven' has produced a sensation, a fit o' horror, here in England
who created the drawings in the raven room UNANSWERABLE who wrote it? Edgar Allan Poe when was it published? January 1845
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The Raven [SEP] Critical reception
in the most melodious of voices ... So marvelous was his power as a reader that the auditors would be afraid to draw breath lest the enchanted spell be broken." Parodies sprung up especially in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and included "The Craven" by "Poh!", "The Gazelle", "The Whippoorwill", and "The Turkey". One parody, "The Pole-Cat", caught the attention of Andrew Johnston, a lawyer who sent it on to Abraham Lincoln. Though Lincoln admitted he had "several hearty laughs", he had not, at that point read "The Raven". However, Lincoln eventually read and memorized the poem.