Edgar allan poe

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A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF POEMS

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EDGAR ALLAN POE


(Born January 19, 1809, Died October 7, 1849)


Biography of Edgar Allan Poe





Poe, a great 19th-century American author, was

born on Jan 19, 1809, in Boston, Mass. Both his

parents died when Poe was two years old, and

he was taken into the home of John Allan

a wealthy tobacco exporter of Richmond, Va

Although Poe was never legally adopted, he

.used his foster father's name as his middle name

After several years in a Richmod academy, Poe

was sent to the University of Virginia. After

a year, John Allan refused to give him more

money, possibly because of Poe's losses at

.gambling. Poe then had to leave the university

In 1827 he published, in Boston, Tamerlane and

Other Poems. This was the first volume of his

poems, and was published anonymously. The book

made no money, and Poe enlisted in the United

States Army under an assumed name. After he

served two years, his foster father arranged for

him to be honorably discharged and to enter

the United States Military Academy. But, within

six months, Poe was dismissed because of neglect

.of duty

Poe then began to write stories for magazines

In 1831, he published Poems by Edgar A. Poe, which

he dedicated to the cadets of the U.S. Military

Academy. In 1833, he won a cash prize for the story

MS. Found in a Bottle. In 1835, he jointed the staff

of the Richmond Magazine, Southern Literary

Messenger. Within a year, the circulation of the

magazine increased seven times thanks to the

.popularity of Poe's stories

Poe, however, soon lost his job with the magazine

because of his drinking. In 1836, he married

beautiful Virginia Clemm, the 13-year-old daughter

of his aunt. The following year he lived in New

York City, and the next year he drifted to Philadelphia

There he became associate editor of Burton's

Gentleman's Magazine. He contributed literary

criticism, reviews, poems, and some of his most

. famous stories to this magazine

In 1840, Poe published Tales of the Grotesque

and Arabesque, a two-volume set of his stories

As literary editor of Graham's Magazine, he

wrote the famous stories, A Descent into

the Maelstrom, and The Masque

of Red Death.

In 1843, Poe won a prize of his story The Gold

Bug. This story, along with such earlier tales

as The Purloined Letter and The Murders in the Rue

Morgue, set the standard of the modern detective

story. He reached the heights of his fame in 1845

with his poem The Raven. That same year he was

. appointed literary critic of the New York Mirror

The long illness of Virginia Poe and her death

in 1847 almost wrecked Poe. His mental

and physical condition grew steadily worse

and he tried to commit suicide. Still, in 1848

and 1849 Poe was able to delivera series of

lecture tours. He died in 1849 in Baltimore

and the notes from his lectures were published

posthumously in 1850, under the title The Poetic

Principles The work, along with The Rationale of

Verse (1843) and The Philosophy of Composition

(1846) ranks among .the best examples of Poe's

literary criticism