Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
The Raven and Other Poems (1845), Preface
“Never had I more
Excited, passionate, fantastical
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That more expected the impossible.”
— W.B. Yeats, book The Tower
The Tower http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1700/, I <br class="br">The Tower (1928)
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