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Enotes.com
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum Website
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore Website
Poestories.com
The Knowing Poe Website

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Born: January 19, 1809 Boston, Massachusetts Died: October 7, 1849 Baltimore, Maryland

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Born: January 19, 1809 Boston, Massachusetts Died: October 7, 1849 Baltimore, Maryland

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Presented by: Devika Bhatnagar, King Johnson, Darnell McClary-Watson, and Riley Monroe

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Presented by: Devika Bhatnagar, King Johnson, Darnell McClary-Watson, and Riley Monroe

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Poe, who continued to struggle living in poverty, got a break when one of his short stories won a contest in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter Newspaper, with a prize of 50$ cash. He began to publish more short stories and in 1835 landed an editorial position with the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.

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Gothic Literature includes many things including haunted houses, graveyards, blood, black, rituals, believes in supernatural, cults, death, or crows.

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The poems that made Poe famous were To Helen (1831), The Raven (1845), and Annabel Lee (1849). Not only did poems make the author famous, short stories did to. Some of them include The Tell-Tale Heart (1843), The Cask of Amontillado (1846), and the supernatural horror story The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).

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When Poe was only three his mother died and father left him causing him to move to a foster family. This tragedy actually helped him become a better writer. Later on making him famous.

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Edgar was unable to support himself so he enlisted himself into the United States Army May 26, 1827, through the fake name Edgar A. Perry. He was only 18 at the time, but had lied and said he was 22. During his military service, he was stationed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in Charleston, South Carolina and then at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Poe then became dissatisfied with serving in the Army. With John Allan's help, Poe left the army and was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, which he attended from 1830 until 1831. Poe was excelling academically but was once again drowning in debt. He was then expelled from the Academy and disowned by Mr. Allan. He moved to Baltimore to live with his aunt and younger cousin that would soon turn into his wife.

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Poe's parents are David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. David was born in Baltimore on July 18, 1784. Elizabeth Arnold came to the U.S. from England in 1796 and married David Poe after her first husband died in 1805. They had three children, Henry, Edgar, and Rosalie. While some sources say that Poe's father left the family when Poe was young and then died afterward, others say that both the mother and the father died together of tuberculosis in 1811. Separating from his brother and sister, he went to live with John and frances Allan. Poe got the middle name Allan from John and Frances Allan at his christening on January 7,1812.

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The Raven is one of Poe's famous Poems. In one gloomy December night, we start with the famous line of the book,¨Once upon a midnight dreary...¨ The speaker in the poem hears tapping on the door. He decides to open his window, and all of a sudden. A raven flew into the house. The speaker was amazed by the raven. Every Word the man said was just taunted by the raven. Everytime the speaker speaks, the raven just replies with   another,¨Nevermore¨ The man would ask the raven if he will see his dead wife or, his ¨Lost Lenore¨. The raven would reply with his default answer,¨Nevermore¨ The man would try to get him to leave But the bird just simply refused. The man seems to be depressed about the fact that he lost his wife and he says her name on occasions during this poem thinking that she is back.

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On October 3, 1849 Poe was found in the gutter outside of Gunther Hall  by Joseph W. Walker. He was lying in the gutter, delirious, in old dirty clothes. Walker then asked if anyone could help the semi--conscious poet. Poe then told Walker that he wanted Joseph E. Snodgrass. After that there has been a bunch of theories on how he died only a few days later. The first one was that he was beaten up by "ruffians" right before his death. While others believed that Poe fell victim to a practice known as coping, a method of voter fraud practiced by gangs in the 19th century where an unsuspecting victim would be kidnapped, and forced to vote for a specific candidate. Over the past few years people have also been believing that he died because he couldn't handle his alcohol. The last theory is that Poe died because of an untreated brain tumor. People believe this because the author's coffin had been dug up to move to a new grave. But when moving the coffin, the worker discovered that there had been a mass moving around in his skull. Many people believed this to be his brain, but that is false because one of the first things to decompose is the brain. Making the mass a brain tumor.

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The Poe Toaster is a person that would visit Edgar Allan Poe's grave on his birthday every year from 1949 until 2009. They would leave three roses and a half-filled bottle on cognac, and when found out, they would run away.

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Edgar Allan Poe's Mysterious Grave Visitor | Random Thursdays

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Edgar Allan Poe was an incredible writer since he was very young. He wrote and published his first book in 1827. It was never really published, only self-published. The literary work was called Tamerlane and Other Poems and  never included Poe's name. Like most of Poe's work, the poems included romance, death, and pride. Since there were only 50 copies made, it is recognized as one of the rarest first editions of American Literature.

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue were the first of the Detective stories written by Poe. It was published Graham's magazine in 1841. It is about a detective in Paris that is trying to solve the murder of two women.

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Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe

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When Edgar Allan Poe was a young adult.

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Lenore is a poem with 26 lines and two speakers. Lenore is also mentioned in one of his poems called,¨The Raven¨. In the first stanza, is directed to Guy De Vere in a poetic language. The stanza announces the death of Lenore. There isn't any real morning in the stanza. The stanza describes the girl as a ¨saintly soul¨. The speakers ask why Guy De Vere hasn't cried. De Vere starts yelling at the speakers on the second stanza. It would also be claimed that she died to escape the unkindness and that she was only used for her wealth. The speakers would reply to De Vere on the third stanza. Like the first stanza, there is little emotion. Back to De Vere speaking in the fourth stanza, he claims that Lenore's soul has risen out of the evil world we call Earth. He would be glad that she escaped the turmoil of the world that tormented her all life. It almost seems like De Vere is the same person in the chamber in the poem,¨The Raven¨

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Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe was Poe's first cousin and his first and only wife. They got married when Poe was 27 and Virginia 13. It has been reported that their marriage was loving and that the couple actually viewed each other as brother and sister. Sadly in January of 1842, she got diagnosed with tuberculosis. The disease lasted for another five years causing her death at the age of 24. It was later revealed that she claimed her age was 21 on the marriage papers so that her and Poe could get married. After his wife's death he turned to alcohol to cope.  Her struggles with illness and death are believed to have affected his poetry and prose, where dying young women appear as a frequent motif, as in "Annabel Lee", "The Raven", and "Ligia".

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From cooping to poisoning and more. What do you Believe?

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A video summing up Poe's life.

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Cool History - Who Was Edgar Allan Poe... Really? | Cool History