Edagar Allen Poe This is a biography about his life 666

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts to David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, both whom were touring actors and both whom died before he was age 3. Poe was then taken into the ho
me of John Allan, a wealthy gentleman of Richmond, Virginia who had persuaded his grandfather to let him adopt him.
\par Young Poe, after going to school in both England and Virginia, went to the Jefferson University, at Charlottesville, in Virginia where he pa
ssed his courses with pristine grades. He later joined and became active member at the Jefferson Literary Society. Though when John Allan failed to give enough money to pay for tuition, Poe found himself deep in dept. Poe was then driven from his home be
cause his "father" did not approve of his debts, so he went to Boston. There he published Tamerlane and Other Poems, a little book of poems, which had mostly been written in his youth.
\par Having no money to pay his debts, Poe enlisted in the army and made an a
ppointment to West Point Academy. After being in the army for two years, during which he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant-major, with John Allan's help, secured a discharge from the army. After six months, Poe was then dismissed from West Point for di
sobedience of orders, but with the help of his fellow cadets, published Poems by Edgar A. Poe Second Edition in 1831, but was actually a third edition following Tamerlane and Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829).
\par He then got a job as editor of the S
outhern Literary Messenger. He critiqued many an author's work known for his often-cruel honesty and harsh tone. He later married his cousin Virginia who was only 13 years old. She later died at the age of 26. This was a devastating blow to Poe, but he co
ntinued to write and lecture.
\par Most of Poe's work was in a depressing, dark, dreary, and sad tone, much because of the life he lived. He led a hard life, what with the death of his parents, living in poverty much due to John Allan, and the death of his wife,
which his work reflects. The events of why he died remain a mystery. After a going to Norfolk and Richmond for lectures, he was discovered in Baltimore in a sickly state and taken unconscious to a hospital where he died on October 7, 1849. He was buried
in the yard of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. During his life Poe had written scores of poems, tales, and short stories which proves that he was deserves to be called one of the most recognized figures of American literature

\par I very
much enjoyed readings Edgar Allen Poe's writings. It's very exciting to read the stories, which leave you hanging on every word trying to find out what is going to happen next. The poems are also good showing they expressed a lot of feeling and emotion. O
verall, whether you like action-packed thrillers like the Tell-Tale Heart or love poems such as Annabel Lee, his work has something for everyone.
\par "Today I am going to talk to you about a man who in his first year of college ran up an astonishing debt, most
of it from gambling, a man who defied his foster father and ran away from home at the age of eighteen, a man who deliberately got himself court-martialed and dismissed from the West Point Military Academy, a man who lost his first job at least partly beca
u
se he drank too much, a man who regularly attacked the literary establishment as it existed in America, and, to complete this deliberately biased portrait, a man who sometimes took drugs. If, on the surface, this description sounds ominously like one of o
ur present-day dropouts from society, it also shows how many people in the 1830's and 1840's regarded a man who today is one of the most revered figures in American literature." Robert D. Jacobs.
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