...r man of mark in the literary world. As a critic, a story-teller and a poet, he had few equals. The Raven is one of the most exquisite lyrics in American literature. The errors and vices of Poe 's life have been sufficiently commented on. Such consolation as the small can find in discovering that the great partake of their own moral infirmities is not withheld from them in the sad career of ...