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Profile: Origins of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

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From: Morning Edition (NPR)
Date: 20020114
Author:BOB EDWARDS

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Profile: Origins of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards.

Present at the Creation is a new NPR series exploring the origins of American cultural icons. The first installment concerns the most famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

Mr. BASIL RATHBONE: 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 ...

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