Poe's Life

Who was Edgar Allan Poe? To start off this blog, the topic that must be informed would have to be Edgar Allan Poe's biography. In Boston, on January 1809, the second son of Eliza have and David Poe, who are both actors, was born. Edgar Allan Poe also has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. When he was young, his father left him and his mother passed away from tuberculosis, so Poe and his sister were then taken in by different families. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, whom he took the name Allan from and added it to his. Poe excelled in all subjects at a first rate school and studied at the University of Virginia.He had problems with gambling and also alcoholic binging. At the age of eighteen, while he was serving in the army, Poe published his first poetry, "Tablerlane and Other Poems" (Poe 36). Due to some militia problems at West Point, Poe left the army and decided to write literature as a full-time career. Even with his famous works, ""The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven"" (Poe 36). Poe was poorly paid. Edgar Allan Poe's relationship with his foster father was not great when he remarried, so Poe left Richmond and soon found his biological family. He then lived with Maria Clemm, who was his father's sister; Clemm ahd a daughter named Virginia who in 1836 married Edgar Allan Poe. Poe traveled around giving out lectures and also wrote stories, which helped him with his income. In 1847, Poe's life began to deteriorate after his wife, Virginia, passed away, at the age of twenty-four, from tuberculosis. He drank more and had destructive tendencies. On October 7, 1849, at the age of forty, Edgar Allan Poe passed away from an unknown death. Even though it has been over a century since Edgar Allan Poe's death, his work of literature is significantly utilized in schools for education, recreated in theatre for plays, and also incorporated into television shows such at The Simpsons.

Works Cited  

Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing 6th Edition. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Pearson Longman, 2010. Print. 36-40.

"Poe's Life| Edgar Allan Poe Museum."Edgar Allan Poe Museum: Poe's Life, Legacy, and Works: Richmond, Virginia. Poe's Museum, 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. <http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php>.

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