Edgar A. Poe life and misery
Edgar Allen Poe son of the actress Eliza Poe and actor David Poe Jr., was born January 19,1809. His father was from a good Baltimore family and drunk heavily. His mother however was a good actress but she died of tuberculosis in Richmond Virginia in December of 1811. After this at the age of 3, Edgar and his brother and sister were orphaned. Edgar went to the home of John and Fanny Allan who lived in Richmond, VA. John Allan was a successful merchant.In 1815 they went to England for five years where he attended private school. Edgar was athletic and smart. As Edgar got older though he started feeling worse and more lowly than the other boys. He fell in love with one of his friend's mother whose name was Mrs. Jane Stanard. Her parents disapproved of the relationship so they broke it off. Though his foster father wanted him to go into business he managed to go to the University of Virginia in 1826. He then studied French, Spanish, Italian and Latin and could read Byron and Cambell. He was in trouble from the day he stepped in. Mr. Allan had not given him enough money to pay for his expenses so he took to gambling and drinking. He reached points where his debt was up to $2,000. His "father" refuse
Edgar Allen Poe was destined to be one of the best and most creative writers of his time. With his life story to fuel him through his wild imaginations he has created the worlds most precious and most famous books, poems and short stories. Poor Poe lost every thing. He lost his mother, brother, aunt and young wife to tuberculosis. His misery is what I think drove him to be a heavy alcoholic. His addiction to alcohol cost him many jobs, and moving around all the time like a nomad. Poe has lived a sad and hard life but while living his sad and hard life he managed to write great books, poems and short stories. Once his job was set he invited his aunt and her daughter to come live with him. Later he married his cousin Virginia who was much younger than him (she was 12). He was good at his job making a name for himself and the magazine. Poe had many problems, he still drank heavily and was dismissed from the magazine rehired and fired for the same reason again. They then moved to NY where Mrs. Clem opened up a boarding house to support them. Poe couldn't find a job but he published a story called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. This story was so convincing critics thought that it was a record of a real voyage. They moved again to Philadelphia where he started editing Burton's Gentlemen's magazine. A contract said he had to write one story of suspense or horror per month. These stories were collected and published under the title Tales of The Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. When Burton's was sold Poe became the editor of the new one, Graham's magazine. In this magazine was printed his first detective story The Murders in Rue Morgue. This story attracted attention for his detective Duping and his method of "logical deduction". In 1833 The Saturday Visitor of Baltimore announced a literary contest with prizes of fifty dollars for best short story and twenty-five for best poem. Poe sent in many stories. Found in a Bottle won the story prize and his poem would have won but they decided not to let the same person win both. It was not much money but a novelist took an interest to Poe and ma
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