The Raven Lounge

I'd like to meet:

NEXT HAPPY HOUR IS MAY 28TH!

Music:

Acoustic, Rock, Punk, House, Techno, Garage, Soul, Electro, more.

Movies:

Television:

Who's Got Time?

Books:

* A Descent into the Maelstrom * Alone * Annabel Lee * Berenice * Eldorado * Eleonora * Landor's Cottage * Lenore * Mesmeric Revelation * Silence -- a Fable * Sonnet: To Science * The Assignation * The Bells * The Black Cat * The Cask of Amontillado * The Devil in the Belfry * The Domain of Arnheim * The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar * The Fall of the House of Usher * The Gold-Bug * The Imp of the Perverse * The Island of the Fay * The Masque of the Red Death * The Murders in the Rue Morgue * The Oblong Box * The Pit and the Pendulum * The Premature Burial * The Purloined Letter * The Raven * The Tell-Tale Heart * The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade * To Helen * Ulalume * Von Kempelen and his Discovery * William Wilson

Heroes:

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were itinerant actors. His father David Poe Jr. died probably in 1810. Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died in 1811, leaving three children. Edgar was taken into the home of a Richmond merchant John Allan. The remaining children were cared for by others. Poe's brother William died young and sister Rosalie become later insane. At the age of five Poe could recite passages of English poetry. Later one of his teachers in Richmond said: "While the other boys wrote mere mechanical verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry; the boy was a born poet."