Produced by Jason Isbell, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. Transcriber's Notes: In the List of Illustrations I restored a missing single quote after "Lenore!": "'Wretch,' I cried, 'thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!'" The List of Illustrations uses 'visitor' where the poem and the actual illustration use 'visiter'. * * * * * THE RAVEN BY EDGAR ALLAN POE ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE [Illustration] WITH COMMENT BY EDMUND C. STEDMAN NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1884 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. _All rights reserved._ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS WITH NAMES OF ENGRAVERS Title-page, designed by Elihu Vedder. _Frederick Juengling._ "Nevermore." _H. Claudius, G.J. Buechner._ ANANKE. _H. Claudius._ "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." _R.A. Muller._ "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." _R.G. Tietze._ "Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore." _H. Claudius._ "Sorrow for the lost Lenore." _W. Zimmermann._ "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Nameless here for evermore." _Frederick Juengling._ "''T is some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.'" _W. Zimmermann._ --"Here I opened wide the door;-- Darkness there, and nothing more." _H. Claudius._ "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." _F.S. King._ "'Surely,' said I, 'surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore.'" _Frederick Juengling._ "Open here I flung the shutter." _T. Johnson._ --"A stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he." _R. Staudenbaur._