ESOL 130 Critical Analysis Essay: Edgar Allen Poe "The Raven"

II. Edgar Allan Poe’s Life and Influence on The Raven

• Biographical background: Overview of Poe’s life, focusing on key events such as personal tragedies and societal influences that shaped his literary style.
• Connection to The Raven: Discuss how Poe’s life experiences, particularly his grief and despair, are reflected in the themes of the poem.
• The universal emotions of The Raven: How Poe’s depiction of loss, fear, and obsession resonates with readers across time and cultures.

Possible Sources located using Summon

1. Edgar Allan Poe

Contemporary Authors Online, 2004

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2.Edgar Allan Poe

by Arthur Lerner

Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 117, 2003

... Edgar Allan Poe's life (1809-1849) was so psychologically complicated that psychoanalytically oriented writers can easily find in it gold mines of information...

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3. Poe, Edgar Allan

Gale Contexual Encyclopedia of American Literature, 2009

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4.Edgar Allan Poe

by J. Lasley Dameron; Robert D. Jacobs

Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 59: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850, 1987

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5. Edgar Allan Poe

by G. R. Thompson

Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 248: Antebellum Writers in the South, Second Series, 2001