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Confidence votes 16.6K. It is not known exactly when Edgar Allan Poe began writing poetry, but as early as 1824 he wrote the words, The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young.. He was 15, and wrote them in memory of a female friend.
Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 as charity. Poe then sold the poem to The American Review, which paid him $9 for it, and printed The Raven in its February 1845 issue under the pseudonym Quarles, a reference to the English poet Francis Quarles.The poem's first publication with Poe's name was in the Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845, as an advance copy.he Philosophy of Composition . The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens.