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 72 Among other noteworthy translations of The Raven into German may be mentioned one by Spielhagen, the well-known novelist, and yet another by Adolf Strodtmann. Strodtmann, who appears to have accepted Poe's Philosophy of Composition as a statement of facts, has translated that essay as an appendix to Der Rabe. From his rendering of the poem published in Hamburg (Lieder und Balladenbuch Americanischer und Englischer Dichter) 1862, the following excerpts may be made:—