Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, a great poet, who is known world wide for his stories of terror, grief, revenge, and misery. Yet all his ideas all target the same thing, French writer Charles-Pierre Baudelaire. The story of Poe's life is nearly as compelling and horrifying as the stories that came form is evil, insane imagination.

Poe was born to his actor parents Elizabeth Arnold and David Poe Jr. Born in Boston in 1806; he was conceived while the acting company was performing Hamlet. He was named Edgar after the theatre manager. His mother later gave birth so his sister Rosalie, and struggled to support her family, so she sent Edgar's brother William to live with David Poe's family in Baltimore. Elizabeth soon became sick with tuberculosis and died on December 8, 1811 at the age of 24.His sister was sent to like with the MacKenzie family. When Edgar was about 3 he was sent to live with Frances and John Allen. His early years with the Allan's were pleasant.

When Poe was 6 his life made a sudden change again. John Allen took the f

Edgar was fierce in school and even more at home. He treated his mother with respect and love but argued with John often because he seemed to expect constant gratitude and humbleness for adopting him but Poe refused to do so. The tension grew thicker and thicker and when Poe found out that John was cheating on Frances his attitude and actions became horrendous. However the tension was somewhat relieved when the Allan' inherited a fortune from a rich uncle.

family on an extended business trip with him to England for 5 years. There he attended London academy in 1816 and in the fall of the next year went to the Manor House School in Stoke Newington. Judging from the poems he would write later on, the 3 years he spent in the gloomy narrow halls of the Manor House were important ones. "He seemed to have absorbed the Gothic atmosphere into his very soul". (Poe, pg 21)

Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,