Edgar Allan Poe Biography

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Edgar Allan Poe Biography

• By Miranda Garcia
• W. Stiern Middle School
• Ms. Marshall
• 2009-2010
• HSS

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The Family

• Mother - Elizabeth Hopkins Poe
• Father David Poe Jr.
• Brother- William Poe
• Sister Rosalie Poe
• Father died in 1810, Mother died in 1811 leaving
  three children including Poe (Age 3)

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The Birth of Edgar Allan Poe

• Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston
  Massachusetts
• After parents death, Poe was taken into the home
  of a Richmond merchant, John Allan
• Poe was educated in Virginia and England
• While boys in school wrote mere mechanical
  verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry
• Never legally adopted, Poe took Johns last name,
  Allan, as his middle name

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The Beginning of Poe

• Poe attended manor school at Stroke Newington in
  England
• It became the setting for his story William
  Wilson
• He attended the University of Virginia
  (1826-1827)
• At the university he composed some tales but was
  little known for them
• He was expelled for not paying his gambling debts
• He was later disowned
• He joined the U.S. army as a soldier under the
  assumed name Edgar A. Perry

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The Beginning of Poe (continued)

• He was sent to Sullivans Island, South Carolina,
  setting for The Gold Bug (1843) Balloon Hoax
  (1844) Tamerlane and other poems (1827)
• He entered West Point
• He was dishonorably discharged for the next year,
  for intentional neglect of his duties as a
  result of his own determination to be released

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Becoming Known

• He lived in Baltimore with his aunt, Mrs. Maria
  Clemm (1833)
• He won a prize of 50 for the short story MS
  Found in a Bottle
• He started his career as a staff member of
  various magazines
• He was a literary messenger in Richmond (1835)
• He worked for Burtons Gentlemans Magazine in
  Philadelphia (1839-1840)
• He worked for Grahams Magazine (1842-1843)
• He had to leave Southern Literary Messenger due
  to alchoholism

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Poes Love

• He became engaged to Elmira Royster but was
  canceled by her parents (1826)
• He was married to his 13 year old cousin Virginia
  Clemm (1842)
• She died from tuberculosis after popping a blood
  vessel
• When the place where she was buried was
  destroyed, William Fearing Gill rescued her
  remains
• He had several other romances, including poet
  Sarah Helen Whitman
• He then again became engaged to Elmira Royster
  who was at the time Mrs. Shelton (1849)
• He dedicated Annabel Lee to Virginia Clemm
  (1849)

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Poe to the End

• Poe suffered from depression and madness
• As a result, attempted suicide in 1848
• He went missing and when found was in delirious
  condition at Ryans Inn and Taverna in Baltimore
• He died in a hospital on October 7, 1849
• He was buried at the Westminister Presbyterian
  burial yard
• Four mourners attended the funeral (Relative
  Nielson Poe and Henry Herring, colleague Dr.
  Joseph Snodgrass, and former classmate Z. Collins
  Lee

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Poes Famous List of Tales

• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Hop-Frog
• The Black Cat
• Ligeia
• The Assignation
• The Oval Portrait
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Purloined Letter
• The Gold-Bug
• Shadow-A Parable
• A Descent into the Maelstrom
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Sphinx

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Poes Famous Lists of Poems

• The Raven
• Lenore
• To Helen
• Ulalume
• The Bells
• Annabel Lee
• The Haunted Palace
• The Conqueror Worm
• The Valley of Unrest
• The City in the Sea
• The Sleeper
• A Dream Within a Dream
• Dream-Land
• Eulalie
• Dreams
• Silence

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Poes List of Work

• The Raven
• The Bells
• Ulalume
• To Helen
• Annabel Lee
• A Valentine
• An Enigma
• To My Mother
• For Annie
• To F----
• To Frances S. Osgood
• Eldorado
• Eulalie
• A Dream Within A Dream
• To Marie Louise (Shew)
• The City In The Sea
• The Sleeper
• Bridal Ballad
• Poems Of Manhood

• Sonnet -- To Science
• Al Aaraaf
• Tamerlane
• To Helen
• The Valley Of Unrest
• Israfel
• To ---
• To The River ----
• Song
• Spirits Of The Dead
• A Dream
• Romance
• Fairy-Land
• The Lake -- To ----
• Evening Star
• "The Happiest Day"
• Imitation
• Hymn To Aristogeiton And Harmodius
• Dreams

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Resources

• Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• Edgar Allan Poe Collection
• http//kirjasto.sci.fi/eapoe.htm
• http//www.mysterynet.com/edgar-allan-poe/
• http//ebookmall.com/alpha-titles/p-titles/Poems-E
  dgar-Allen-Poe-over-50-poems.htm