{"date":"March 6","id":"03-06","intro":["Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point and disinherited. So poor was he that when his young wife lay dying, he could not afford a fire to warm her. The weirdness and despair of “The Raven” is particularly symbolic of his life."],"minutes":5,"readings":[{"author":"Edgar Allan Poe","end":1230,"start":1227,"volume":42,"work":"The Raven"}],"slug":"march-6","status":"proofread","title":"West Point’s Outcast, America’s First Great Poet","url":"/harvard-classics/march-6/","words":1093}