...He quotes, for illustration, lines from Poe's "The Raven" (LOA, i: 535): Ah! distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Blood might well have quoted from his own poetry, from what many considered to be his most magnificent...

...visiter," I muttered, „tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought ist ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books...

...I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.' Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow —...

...I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow...

...I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow —...

...I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow 1 o From my books surcease of sorrow...

...vers: "Et de la soie l'in certain et triste bruissement en chaque rideau purpuralme traversait..." ("And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain/ Thrilled me..." à la strophe 3), où l'on reconnaît des accents poétiques typiquement mallarméens18. On y trouve...

...versions proposées tour à tour par Baudelaire du poème "The Raven" : Original : Edgar Poe, "The Raven" And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple...filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; (III, 13-14) Version 1 : 1853 [1854] Et le soyeux, mélancolique, indéterminé froufrou de chaque...

...I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost...

...visiter,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this, and nothing more.' Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had tried to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow...