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Grade 7 Up–Price has pulled an old masterpiece out of the closet, dusted it off, and illustrated it, and left it gleaming sinisterly for this generation to devour. Cross-hatched, shadowy art, created through drypoint printmaking, proves an ideal medium through which to capture the man's torturous slide into madness, the haunting memory of Lenore, and the raven's chilling persistence. Nowhere is the poem's insane fear better captured than on the final spread. Left with Poe's one last word of despair, nevermore, readers encounter a drastically angular vision of the man crouched on his bedroom floor, surrounded by hastily drawn pencil sketches of the visions madly spinning in his head. Price's vision of The Raven not only haunts, but also brings Poe's work back to life. An ideal resource for teachers and students.–Jill Heritage Maza, Greenwich High School, CT
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Illustrations for poetry can sometimes overwhelm the verbal images and get in the way of the words, but in this small, handsome volume, Price's grim, sepia-tone stylized pictures, decorated with feathery, black cross-hatching, do a great job of evoking the brooding guilt, terror, grief, and love in Poe's famous poem. Using drypoint, Price, a fine artist and printmaker, blends contemporary details with images of the lost, radiant maiden and a terrifying black-beaked monster. As part of the Visions in Poetry series, this book will reacquaint older readers with the familiar chanting rhythms, while lengthy appended notes will spark discussion on both the poem and the art. Hazel Rochman
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Visuals,
This review is from: The Raven (Hardcover)
I think this book presents some great visuals of what could be going through the narrator's mind as he "ponders weak and weary" about "lost Lenore". It was especially helpful to me because I teach this poem in ELA and it helped the students to picture his anguish and his culpability over and about the death of Lenore.
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Art Confuses the Poem's Message,
By A.Trendl HungarianBookstore.com "What should ... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Raven (Hardcover)
What can I say of "The Raven" that has not been said? Beauty and sadness, grief and romance.Lamenting the loss of a gentle but passionate woman, the narrator drinks, yet somberly dwells on her name. A local raven, with the capacity to utter like a parrot a syllable or two, repeats "Lenore," and "Nevermore." The narrator, tired and broken, believes the raven might be sent by God or even by the Devil, and tries talking with it. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'T is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door; Only this and nothing more." The poem, like a long tale, draws the listener or reader to be in that lonely room. Anyone who has ever been in love and lost that lover will known Poe's pain and supplication of God. Like many of Poe's poetry, rhythm, alliteration and near internal rhymes lift the poem up high. It is somber, driven by gray images of sadness. The text is what is important here, but the images are what differentiate it from other publications, particularly more academic editions. Beautiful, and haunting, it misses the story told by Poe, displacing grief with fear. This detracts from the poem, reducing the many levels of despair into a spooky Halloween kind of poem. This is not Bela Lugosi's take on Dracula, but the moments of a man brokenhearted, tired and a little drunk, trying to sort through the hardship of love lost. For a good copy of Poe's "Raven," look elsewhere. The words will be the same, but the message will not be as distracted by an artist's skewed view. Anthony Trendl editor, HungarianBookstore.com 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A nice gift edition for fans of Poe's "The Raven",
By Z Hayes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Raven (Hardcover)
I received this from a friend for my birthday, and as a Poe fan I appreciated the effort that went into this edition. It's not easy to interpret (through art) Poe's Gothic poem of loss, grief, and guilt. Artist Ryan Price's interpretation of "The Raven" focuses more on fear and guilt. The illustrations are dark and somber befitting the poem's themes, and though I commend the artist for his creative interpretation, I feel there is a missing element in the illustrations. The sense of fear and guilt was overpowering, and I felt this should have been balanced by the sense of loss and grief which I feel are also part of the poem's message. This is of course my personal opinion, and in interpreting poetry, I feel it is always best to let one's one imagination capture the essence of a poem. This does make a nice gift edition for fans of Poe's "The Raven", and made for a lively discussion with my fellow Poe fans.
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LA201 Review,
By Amy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Raven (Hardcover)
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is a poem both children and adults can enjoy. The rhymes within the poem help enhance Poe's already creepy setting. The raven itself haunts readers as it teaches that death can "nevermore" be escaped.
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