- His father left the family early in Edgar's life.
- His mother passed away when he was only three.
- Edgar Allan Poe turned to gambling to make money to cover his living expenses but ended up in debt.
- Edgar was adopted by John Allan (and his wife who couldn't have children), a tobacco merchant of Scottish extraction.
- Both of Edgar's biological parents were very successful actors of their time.
5 Professional Life
- Edgar Allan Poe was a short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor.
- Edgar Allan Poe went to the University of Virginia in 1826
- He joined the army under a false identity in 1827-1829 to avoid debt collectors.
- In 1833 Poe got a job at the Southern Literary Messenger.
- In 1845 His poem "The Raven" appeared in the New York Evening Mirror in January, and was an instant success with both readers and critics.
- 5 Romanticism
- In May of 1836 he secretly married his first cousin Virginia Clemm.
- On January 30, 1847 his wife Virginia died from long term tuberculosis.
- After Virginia's death Poe's life-long struggle with depression and alcoholism worsened
- Edgar wrote several romantic 'love' poems that seemed to be based upon the life and death of his wife Virginia.
- Virginia expressed her devotion to her husband in a Valentine poem now in the collection of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and Poe celebrated the joys of married life in his poem “Eulalie.”
Edgar Allan Poe. Image from: http://welcometobaltimorehon.com/images/poe1.jpg
Sources
- http://www.biography.com/people/edgar-allan-poe-9443160
- http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kennedy_lfpd_9/22/5820/1489992.cw/index.html
- http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php
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