“The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845 – 170 years ago today. It tells the story of a talking raven’s midnight visit to a distraught lover, tracing the ...

On January 29, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe made a name for himself. That day, The New York Evening Mirror published his poem, “The Raven.” Its depiction of a bird’s mysterious visit to a ...

1845: Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. 1919: The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was ...

On Jan. 29, 1845, a haunting ode about a bird that drives a poet to madness made its debut in the New York Evening Mirror. The poem, of course, was "The Raven," written by former Richmonder Edgar ...

On this day in 1845, the poem The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe, was published by the New York Evening Mirror.Often described as the first publication of Poe’s narrative poem, about a talking bird ...

Jan. 29, 1845: Edgar Allan Poe’s 'The Raven' is first published. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. ... After it appeared in New York’s The Evening Mirror on this day ...

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary . . . " So begins "The Raven," an Edgar Allan Poe poem first published in the New York Evening Mirror newspaper on Jan. 29, 1845.