The Life and Times of Edgar Allen Poe

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The Life and Times of Edgar Allen Poe

• Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts
  on January 19, 1809.

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Poes Poems

• The Raven
• Eldorado
• Annabel Lee
• The Bells
• A Dream Within A Dream
• Lenore

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• A Dream Within a Dream
• Take this kiss upon the brow!
• And, in parting from you now,
• Thus much let me avow
• That my days have been a dream
• Yet if hope has flown away
• In a night, or in a day,
• In a vision, or in none,
• Is it therefore the less gone?
• All that we see or seem
• Is but a dream within a dream

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• Continued
• I stand amid the roar
• Of a surf-tormented shore
• And I hold within my hand
• Grains of the golden sand
• How few! yet how they creep
• Through my fingers to the deep
• While I weepwhile I weep
• O God! can I not grasp
• Them with a tighter clasp?
• O God! can I not save
• One from the pitiless wave
• Is all that we see or seem
• But a dream within a dream?

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Poes Portrait

• This was how Poe was pictured as in an engraving
  by Thomas B. Welch and Adam B. Walter.

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Interesting Facts About Poe

• Last night, with many cares and toils oppress'd
  Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest
• This was Poes first writing

• No aspect of his life has so fascinated Poe's
  fans and detractors as his death. Unfortunately,
  there is also no greater example of how badly
  Poe's biography has been handled. Shrouded in
  opinion and contradiction, the essential details
  of Poe's final days leave us with more questions
  than answers. In the end we must accept that the
  few tantalizing facts we have lead to no certain
  conclusion. Poe's death must, probably, remain a
  mystery -- but the puzzle still teases and
  entices us. It is easy to find ourselves
  reviewing the stories again in hopes of finding
  something new, to settle the question once and
  for all.
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

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More Interesting Facts About Poe

• Most general accounts of Poe's appearance relate
  that he was a handsome man. Women in particular
  considered him good looking. His attractiveness
  was enhanced by his bearing, which seems to have
  been influenced by his brief military experience.
  A great number of comments focus on the expansive
  nature of his forehead, which was granted special
  significance.
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimorephrenology
  , now dismissed as nonsense, was widely
  considered a reliable science.

To some, however Poe was a monster
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A Sad Day For Mankind Indeed

• On October 7, 1849 Poe died of rabies.

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Sources

• www.poets.org
• www.eapoe.org