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Uploaded by Stories, Tales and Poems on 2016-11-03.

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The "Poe Toaster" is a mysterious figure who stops at Poe's grave and leaves a half-full bottle of cognac and three roses, and then disappears into the darkness.

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Poe is buried at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, Maryland

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Within three years of Poe's birth, Poe's father abandoned the family and his mother died of tuberculosis.

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Some elements of gothic literature include: gloomy and/or decaying  setting, supernatural beings, curses or prophecies, murder, and revenge.

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Poe married his 13 year old cousin Virginia at the age of 27. In 1847, Virginia died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four.

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When Poe's mother died he was adopted by John Allan. The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name Edgar Allan Poe, the Allans never formally adopted Poe.

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Poe started his writing career writing poems.

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Some theories on Poe's death include: beating, epilepsy, dipsomania, heart disease, toxic disorder.

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This is the first installment of the detective story genre.

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The poem Tamerlane is the first published work by Edgar Allen Poe.

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These were the first two poems written by Poe that made him famous.

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To Octavia by Edgar Allan Poe Please leave a comment.

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Poe attended U.S. Academy in West Point. Poe tried to deliberately get expelled from West Point military academy.

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The tragic childhood events that influenced his writing is his mother dieing of tuberculosis; and his father abandoning him, his siblings, and mother a year before his mother died.

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Poe died on October 7, 1849 at the age of forty. The exact cause of Poe’s death is still unknown.

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Poe was born January 19, 1809 in
Boston, Massachusetts