Text: Anonymous, “[Review of Ingram's edition of The Raven],” The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper (London, UK), vol. XXXIII, whole no. 848, February 27, 1886, p. 12, col. 3

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RECENT POETRY AND VERSE

“THE RAVEN, by Edgar Allan Poe,” with literary and historical commentary by John H. Ingram (George Redway), is a book as valuable to the student as it is dainty in appearance. Mr. Ingram, who has made the subject his own, gives us not only the text of the world-famed poem, but a most interesting dissertation on its genesis, renderings into French, German, Latin, and Magyar — some of them very clever, several of the best parodies which have appeared, and a refutation of the palpably absurd stories which formerly abused the credulity of people with more curiosity than judgment. We cannot agree with the decision that “The Tankard” is better than Robert Brough's “Vulture ” — one of the funniest things he ever wrote, but, after all, that is a matter of taste, and Mr. Ingram's monograph is a decided gain to literature.