...rancis that his conversation was a sort of Roman punch, made up of tragedy, comedy, and the broadest of all possible farce. In those days The Raven, newly published, was the talk of the town. Dr. Francis , meeting Poe, invited him to come to his house on a certain evening, and straightway forgot the matter. Poe came at the appointed time. The Doctor, summoned to the bedside of a patient, left the ...