Poe's 'The Raven' was actually inspired by Charles Dickens's own pet Raven.
Dickens named him Grip and he could speak.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150820-the-mysterious-tale-of-charles-dickenss-raven
http://www.ushistory.org/oddities/images/grip.jpg
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