The Raven (Visions in Poetry)
Grade 7 Up–Price has pulled an old masterpiece out of the closet, dusted it off, and illustrated it, and left it gleaming sinisterly for this generation to devour. Cross-hatched, shadowy art, created through drypoint printmaking, proves an ideal medium through which to capture the man's torturous slide into madness, the haunting memory of Lenore, and the raven's chilling persistence. Nowhere is the poem's insane fear better captured than on the final spread. Left with Poe's one last word of despair, nevermore, readers encounter a drastically angular vision of the man crouched on his bedroom floor, surrounded by hastily drawn pencil sketches of the visions madly spinning in his head. Price's vision ofThe Ravennot only haunts, but also brings Poe's work back to life. An ideal resource for teachers and students.–Jill Heritage Maza, Greenwich High School, CTCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.