Edgar allan poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe nasceu em Boston, no dia 19 de Janeiro de 1809. Poe estudou em Londres na Stoke-Newington; algum tempo depois continuou seus estudos de volta a Richmond, na Universidade Charlotteville. Allan Poe, apesar de muito inteligente era também muito genioso. Era um jovem aventureiro, romântico, orgulhoso e idealista. Poe escreveu novelas, contos e poemas, exercendo larga influência em autores fundamentais como Baudelaire, Maupassant e Dostoievski. Mas admite-se que seu maior talento era em escrever contos. Entre os contos, destacam-se O gato preto, Ligéia, Coração denunciador, A queda da casa de Usher, O poço e o pêndulo, Berenice e O barril de amontillado.

The Raven *
(by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1845)
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore,.
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,
Nameless here forevermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me---filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
" 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door,
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
This it is, and nothing more."
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is, I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came