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Edgar Allan Poe was an influential American writer known for his mystery and macabre themes, with notable works including 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Raven.' Born in 1809, he faced a tumultuous early life, including the loss of his mother and struggles with poverty, which led him to join the army and later pursue a literary career. He gained recognition as an editor and critic, marrying his cousin Virginia Clemm, and became a prominent figure in American literature by the mid-1830s.

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Edgar Allan Poe was an influential American writer known for his mystery and macabre themes, with notable works including 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Raven.' Born in 1809, he faced a tumultuous early life, including the loss of his mother and struggles with poverty, which led him to join the army and later pursue a literary career. He gained recognition as an editor and critic, marrying his cousin Virginia Clemm, and became a prominent figure in American literature by the mid-1830s.

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Edgar Allan Poe (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland) was an American short-


story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of
mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the
atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction.
His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the
national literature.
Early life, first published works, and marriage
Poe was the son of the English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and
David Poe, Jr., an actor from Baltimore. After his mother died
in Richmond, Virginia, in 1811, he was taken into the home of John
Allan, a Richmond merchant (presumably his godfather), and of his
childless wife. He was later taken to Scotland and England (1815–20),
where he was given a classical education that was continued in
Richmond. For 11 months in 1826 he attended the University of
Virginia, but his gambling losses at the university so incensed his
guardian that he refused to let him continue, and Poe returned to
Richmond to find his sweetheart, (Sarah) Elmira Royster, engaged. He
went to Boston, where in 1827 he published a pamphlet of
youthful Byronic poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems.

Poverty forced him to join the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry,
but, on the death of Poe’s foster mother, John Allan purchased his
release from the army and helped him get an appointment to the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point. Before going, Poe published a new
volume at Baltimore, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829).
He successfully sought expulsion from the academy, where he
was absent from all drills and classes for a week. He proceeded to New
York City and brought out a volume of Poems, containing several
masterpieces, some showing the influence of John Keats, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Edgar Allan Poe at workIllustration of American writer Edgar Allan Poe working at
his desk with his pet cat Catalina on his shoulder and his wife, Virginia Clemm,
sitting in a chair by the fireside.(more)

Poe then returned to Baltimore, where he began to write stories. In


1833 his “MS. Found in a Bottle” won $50 from a Baltimore weekly, and
by 1835 he was in Richmond as editor of the Southern Literary
Messenger. There he made a name as a critical reviewer and married
his young cousin Virginia Clemm, who was only 13. Poe seems to have
been an affectionate husband and son-in-law.

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