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December 16th, 2017: Two Poes for the Price of One


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Please join us for our next Readers' Corner discussion at 8:30 PM (EST) on December 16th  [1:30 AM (GMT) December 17th for those in other time zones] for a discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" and his short story "The Tell Tale Heart".  During our last meeting, those of us familiar with Poe's works indicated that Hammett's story "The Glass That Laughed" reminded us of the former's story "The Tell-Tale Heart".  During the discussion it became the it became obvious that about half of our members were unfamiliar with Poe, or at least not well versed in the body of his prose and poetry.  One reader asked if Poe were not the writer of that poem about a crow.  After we scraped Koach off the ceiling, we explained that the poem, one of the most well known in American literature, is called "The Raven".  We will devote our next chat to looking at Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" as a possible early model for last weeks Hammett story, and to examining "The Raven" as a window into the psyche of the inventor of the detective story as well as a pioneer author of gothic horror tales.

I think you will enjoy reading both the story and the poem (neither is so long as to be a burden), and the discussion should be fun.

There are numerous web sites devoted to Poe's works--several associated with educational or literary research organizations and/or to organizations devoted to preserving the authors history and works.  You can easily find both the story and the poem with a simple google search looking for the work by its title.  I recommend you use the texts published on the PoeStories.com.  They have some obsolete words annotated with definitions or explanations of the understood classical meanings of the symbols.

The story is available online at:  https://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart

The poem is avaialbe at:  https://poestories.com/read/raven 

As usual we will meet in the #readers_corner chatroom on Koach.com:

Webchat:  http://koach.com/cha...=readers_corner  

mIRC Users:  /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner

I hope to see you all there.

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