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Does anyone know how much Edgar Allan Poe was paid for writing the poem The Raven?
-- Anonymous, October 08, 2000
Jared,According to the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore at http://www.eapoe.org , there are several sources with differing amounts paid to Edgar Allan Poe for the poem The Raven.
1. An estimate by John W. Ostrom indicates a payment to Poe of $9.00.
2. Thomas O. Mabbot says that family tradition holds that Poe received $15.00.
3. R. H. Stoddard stated in 1877 that the publisher of The Raven recalled paying $10.00
4. Dr. Thomas Dunn English stated in The Independent of November 5, 1896, that Poe received $30.00
Regards,
-- Anonymous, October 08, 2000
I believe the A&E Biography video I showed stated he received 14.00.
-- Anonymous, October 10, 2000
i was told that it was roughly 50 pence give or take a bit
-- Anonymous, February 06, 2002