PRICE OF "THE RAVEN"

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HOW MUCH DID POE GET FOR "THE RAVEN"

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2001

Answers

A small token amount for first publication, but as a selling point for his other works and reading tours it was more of a godsend. Touring and reading was quite a strain in order to raise money for his last project, a magazine of his own, for which he would still need a lot of other financial backing.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2001

Oh, about 15 dollars, according to www.eapoe.org.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2001

he sold his poem for about 5 or ten dollars so he could get money to by some firewood

-- Anonymous, February 04, 2002

Poe sold his poem "The Raven" for about $20 or $30 I think because he loved his wife and wrote the poem after her death or at the time she died.

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2002

id pay $9999999999999999999999999999999999 to francise it

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2004


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-- Anonymous, November 22, 2004

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