Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Version Translated by Stephane Mallarmé (1875)

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Edgar Allan Poe achieved virtually prompt fame dur­ing his life­time after the pub­li­ca­tion of The Raven (1845), however he nev­er felt that he obtained the recog­ni­tion he deserved. In some respects, he was proper. He was, in any case, paid solely 9 dol­lars for the poem, and he strug­gled earlier than and after its pub­li­ca­tion to…