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How I Wrote "The Raven"

av Edgar Allan Poe

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I have often thought how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would ?that is to say, who could? detail, step by step, the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of completion. Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to say ?but, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers ?poets in especial? prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy ?an ecstatic intuition? and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes, at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought ?at the true purposes seized only at the last moment? at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view ?at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable? at the cautious selections and rejections ?at the painful erasures and interpolations? in a word, at the wheels and pinions ?the tackle for scene-shifting? the step-ladders and demontraps? the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches which in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred constitute the properties of the literary histrio.I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is at all in condition to retrace the steps by which his conclusions have been attained. In general, suggestions, having arisen pell-mell, are pursued and forgotten in a similar manner.For my own part, I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to, nor, at any time, the least difficulty in recalling to mind the progressive steps of any of my compositions; and, since the interest of an analysis, or reconstruction, such as I have considered a desideratum, is quite independent of any real or fancied interest in the thing analyzed, it will not be regarded as a breach of decorum on my part to show the modus operandi by which some one of my own works was put together. I select "The Raven," as the most generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition ? that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.… (mer)
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I have often thought how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would ?that is to say, who could? detail, step by step, the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of completion. Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to say ?but, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers ?poets in especial? prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy ?an ecstatic intuition? and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes, at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought ?at the true purposes seized only at the last moment? at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view ?at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable? at the cautious selections and rejections ?at the painful erasures and interpolations? in a word, at the wheels and pinions ?the tackle for scene-shifting? the step-ladders and demontraps? the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches which in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred constitute the properties of the literary histrio.I am aware, on the other hand, that the case is by no means common, in which an author is at all in condition to retrace the steps by which his conclusions have been attained. In general, suggestions, having arisen pell-mell, are pursued and forgotten in a similar manner.For my own part, I have neither sympathy with the repugnance alluded to, nor, at any time, the least difficulty in recalling to mind the progressive steps of any of my compositions; and, since the interest of an analysis, or reconstruction, such as I have considered a desideratum, is quite independent of any real or fancied interest in the thing analyzed, it will not be regarded as a breach of decorum on my part to show the modus operandi by which some one of my own works was put together. I select "The Raven," as the most generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition ? that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.

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