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CFP: Scots & the Environment
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Conference
17–20 June, University of Stirling

Proposals invited on any aspect of the conference theme: literary, philosophical, theological, historical, scientific or medical, social or political. Papers on other aspects of 18th-century Scottish thought & culture are also welcome

https://ecsss.org/upcoming-conferences/

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"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!"

in 1845.

Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "The Raven", under his own name in The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven

The Raven at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192

The raven perches on a bust of Pallas Athena, a symbol of wisdom meant to imply the narrator is a scholar. Illustration by Édouard Manet for Stéphane Mallarmé's translation, Le Corbeau (1875).