On a bleak December midnight, Quarles finds the title character "perched upon a bust of Pallas," answering his plea for balm in Gilead with the phrase "nevermore.
This character outpours his soul in a one-word name and, though his answer bears little relevance, he is called a prophet with demonic eyes. The work in which he appears was first published in Evening Mirror and American Review and introduced its author to the literary circle of New York. On a bleak December midnight, Quarles finds the title character "perched upon a bust of Pallas," answering his plea for balm in Gilead with the phrase "nevermore." Murmuring "Lenore," for ten points, name this titular ebony bird in an Edgar Allan Poe poem.
This character outpours his soul in a one-word name and, though his answer bears little relevance, he is called a prophet with demonic eyes.
“The {Raven}”