Edgar Allan Poe
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809.
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He was the child of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.
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He had an older brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister, Rosalie Poe.
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Poe's father left their family in 1810 and his mother died of TB in 1811.
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Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant in Richmond, Virginia.
His new family sailed to Britain in 1815.
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Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.
He studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until summer 1817.
In 1824 Poe served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as Richmond celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.
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Poe enlisted in the army in 1827, the same year he wrote his first book Tamerlane and Other Poems.
His first drama he wrote was the "Politian".
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The Baltimore Saturday Visiter awarded Poe a prize in October 1833 for his short story "MS. Found in a Bottle".
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Poe secretly married Virginia, his cousin, on September 22, 1835. He was 26 and she was 13.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published and widely reviewed in 1838.
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Poe's wife Virginia had began to get TB. He was very stressed and drank heavily.
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On January 29, 1845, his poem "The Raven".
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Virginia died on January 30, 1847.
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Her death inspired poems like "Annabel Lee", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", and many more.
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On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious. He died 4 days later.
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