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His wife's long illness turned her marriage into a bitter experience. She died in 1847

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He enlisted in the army, where he remained for two years.

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Edgar Allan Poe lost his parents when he was only two years old.

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He was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts

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His tendency to alcoholism and drug use became worse and in 1849, he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street and taken to a hospital, where he died a few days later, of a stroke.

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In 1840 he published in Philadelphia Tales of the grotesque and the arabesque and then he wrote the poem book The Rave (1845).

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In 1832, he moved to Baltimore, where he married his young cousin Virginia Clemm, who was about fourteen years old.

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In 1829 appeared his second book of poems, Al Aaraaf, and obtained a position in the Military Academy of West Point.

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He traveled to Boston, where he published his first book, Tamerlane and other poems (Tamerlane and Other Poems, 1827).

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Little Edgar was educated by John Allan. He lived in the United Kingdom, where he began his education.

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He was an American poet, narrator and critic, one of the greatest storytellers of all time.