Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe

• Project work Famous Writers of World Literature
• Life Work Impact
• Richard Mattheus
  
  Benedikt Burth

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Life

• January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849
• Parents Eliza Poe and David Poe, jr
• Brother William Henry Poe
• Sister Rosalie Poe
• Wife since May 16, 1836 Virginia Clemm

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Life

• Father left before his birth, Mother died 1812
• John Allan put him up at age 3
• Attending schools in England and Richmond
• University of Virginia

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Life

• US Army (1827 1829)
• 1827 released his first book
• 1829 second book (Al Aaraf)
• West Point Military Academy (compelled
  dismissial)
• John Allan repudiated him forever

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Life

• Moved to Baltimore, Maryland with aunt and cousin
  (Maria and Virginia Clemm)
• On May 16, 1836 married his 13 years old cousin
• Editor for Southern Literary Messanger (1835
  1837)
• Moved to Philladelphia
• Novella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was
  published

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Life

• 1839 assistant editor of Burtons Gentlemans
  Magazine
• 1840 left Burtons
• Assistant editor at Grahams Magazine

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Life

• 1842 first sign of Virginias tuberculosis
• Poe began to drink more heavily
• Left Grahams

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Life

• 1842 moved to New York
• Worked briefly at the Evening Mirror
• Editor of the Broadway Journal
• 1845 his poem The Raven appeared in the Evening
  Mirror
• Broadway Journal failed in 1846

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Life

• Poe moved to a cottage in the Bronx
• Virginia died there in 1847
• Attempted suicide by overdosing on Laudanum
• Returned to Richmond
• Died in Washington College Hospital on October 7,
  1849

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Work

• Poems
• A Dream A Dream within a Dream ( 1827)
• Al Aaraaf ( 1829)
• The Raven (1845 )
• Annabel Lee The Bells ( 1849)

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Work

• Stories
• Berenice ( 1835 )
• William Wilson ( 1839 )
• The Balloon Hoax ( 1844 )
• The Cask of Amontillado ( 1846 )
• The Light House ( unfinished , published
  1909 and 1942 )

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Work

• Novels
• The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfall (
  1834 )
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
  (1838)

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Work

• Essays
• The philosophy of Composition ( 1846 )
• The Rational of Verse
• The Poetic Principle ( published 1850 )
• Eureka An Essay on the Material and Spiritual
• Universe ( 1848 )

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Work

• Play
• Politian ( 1835 )

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Impact

• He was poor devil who had no defense against
  the world. So he fled into drunkenness. He
  wrote tales of mystery to make himself at home in
  the world ( Franz Kafka )

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Impact

• this marvellous lord of rythmic expression
  ( Oscar Wilde )
• it is impossible, however, to know if even
  ones own works were not influenced by his. (
  T.S. Eliot )

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