A review by clayjs
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

5.0

Poe's poetry is one of the most stupidly fascinating things in the American canon. It's both dark and bright, hopeless and hopeful, beautiful and grotesque. While his stories are particularly well-wrought pieces that consistently transcend his chosen genre, his poems are more sublime, more perfect, and more challenging. From carefully structured pulp pieces like "The Conqueror Worm" to his true masterpiece, "El Dorado", Poe's consistently reliable genius marks every perfectly chosen word.