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There were many things happening around Poe's time period when he wrote his masterpieces. There were many things that happened in Poes life like... Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau were writing during Poe's time. One our greatest presidents Abraham Lincon was born (1809) Thomas Jefferson ending his second term as president as Poe was starting his life.(1809) James Madison taking Jeffersons place as the forth president, and will serve two terms(1809-1817) War of 1812 (Great Britain vs. US) The British provoked the US by repeatedly attacking US ships and taking in prisoners. This war ended by a treaty signed by the British and the US winning. (1812-1815) 5th President: James Monroe was elected. (1817-1825) Red Cloud ,Chief of Bad Face Band of Oglalas and leader of Sioux and Cheyenne Bands, resisted U.S. in Bozeman Trail Development, Fetterman Massacre (1866) 6th President: John Quincy Adams is president. (Son of John Adams, the 2nd President) (1825-1829); Websters An American Dictionary is started (1828) 7th President: Andrew Jackson is elected as president.(1829-1837); Karl Marx writes ''The Communist Manifesto'' (1848) California Gold Rush Begins (1848)
After Virginia died of Tuberculosis in 1847 Edgar Allan Poe's drinking habits and his depression began to become much worse than before. He then returned to richmond briefly in 1849 and then looked for an editing job in Philidelphia. For unkown reasons though, he ended up in Baltimore and died of unkown causes. He was found in the gutter of the street with some one elses clothes on October 3rd, 1849. He was then sent to the hospital and over the next few days and he fell in and out of consciousness. When he was asked questions his answers were answers were “answers were incoherent and unsatisfactory.” After spending most of his life in Baltimore and New York, he died in the hospital at about 3:00 A.M or 5:00P.M. on October 7th, 1849 in Baltimore. Some people think he died by alcoholism, others think he died from suicide from depression, others think he died from being beaten to death. His last words were “Lord help my poor soul.” Poe is buried in Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds. On October 1, 1875, he was reburied to a new spot in the Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds with a new tombstone. Now every January 19 (Poe's brithday) somebody puts a bottle of Cognac and flowers on his grave. This mysterious person is know as the Poe Toaster. Poe is very important to American History. Poe's work as an editor, a poet, and a critic had a profound impact on the broad category of literature. His stories definately give him title as one of the originators of both horror and detective fiction. Many people think that he should have credit as the architect of the modern short story. He will also be remembered for his style of creepy, ghory, scary, and nerve racking way of writing. He was able to manage to put an incredible story in only four to six pages and he proved that you do not need 200 pages to make an excellent piece of writing.
Before Poe became the inventor of detective fiction and one of Americas most famous writer, he was a magazine editor for The New York Evening Mirror, he was and exeptional editor but always found himself at odds with his other literary skills so he tried publishing his works. The most famous works of Edgar Allan Poe would have to be '' The Raven''. '' The Raven '' is so famous in face that the Baltimore football team is named the Ravens after Edgar Allan Poe's peom '' The Raven''. ''The Raven'' is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe forst published in the January of 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror (a newspaper) which made Edgar Allan Poe famous. ''The Raven'' was certainly the most famous of Poes works but it is not the only famous one. He wrote numerous short stories including ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', (Published in 1843) Which is about a muderers guilt. ''The Cask of Amontillado'' (Published in 1846), which is a story of revenge. ''The Masque of Red Death'', (Published in 1850) Which is about the horror of plague. ' ''The Murders in Rue Morgue''. (Published in 1841) which is a detective story. They were all published in New York. All These prove that Edgar Allan Poe is the father of macabre with the great mystery and suspence he includes in the book. There are other Famous poems written by Poe that are very famous including ''Annabel Lee'' and ''Eldorado''. Both of these have a myterious tone to them that made him fomous. Edgar Allan Poe made a good amount of money on the works listed above, but he lost almost all of it by abusing drugs and drinking constantly.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, January 19, 1809. His mother was named Elizabeth and his father's name was David. Edgar had two siblings named Henry and Rosalie. Elizabeth however, seperated from David and took her three children with her. Poe experienced tragedy at the young age of two when his mother died. He was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan. John was a merchant and quite succesful so Poe grew up in good surroundings. Poe went to school for five years at the age of six. He was a very smart kid learning latin, french, math, and history. Poe then returned to America and he continued learning until he went to the University if Virginia in 1826 as a 17 year old. John Poe though, did not give Poe all the money necessary and Poe became a massive drinker and a massive money spender and dropped out. Poe was a nobody with no job or no money. So he went to Boston and joined the army in 1827 at the age of 18 under the name Edgar Allan Perry. He managed to get to a sergeant major. In 1829, Mrs. Allan died and John Allan signed Edgar into West Point. He entered the school as a cadet but he wasn't able attend that school for very long because John Allan didn't give him any money. He was dismissed on March 6, 1831. Before becoming a succesful writer Edgar was a complete bum. In 1831, he submitted stories to a lot of magazines but they were all rejected. He had no money, no job, and no friends and his father never helped him. Finally, in 1835, he got a job as an editor because he won some contest. He was an editor for a few companies like Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine. In all of this Poe married his cousin Vriginia when he was 27 and she was only 13. Poe was interested in a lot of women including Mrs Sarah Helen Whitman, Mrs Charles Richmond, and Mrs Sarah Elmira Shelton.
Bibliography for basic info Giordano, Robert. "Biography of Edgar Allan Poe." Poe Stories. July 1,2005. Web. 20 Oct 2009. . Wilson, James. "Poe's Life." Poe Museum. 2004. Web. 20 Oct 2009. .
E L Doctorow. "Our Edgar. " The Virginia Quarterly Review 82.4 (2006): 241-248. Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 20 Oct. 2009.Jill Lepore. "THE HUMBUG :A Critic at Large. " The New Yorker 27 Apr. 2009: Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 20 Oct. 2009..
Jill Lepore. "THE HUMBUG :A Critic at Large. " The New Yorker 27 Apr. 2009: Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 20 Oct. 2009..poster yourself Kray, Elizabeth. "Edgar Allan Poe." Poets.org. 2009. Web. 21 Oct 2009. People of the society, . "The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe." The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. jan 24, 2009. Web. 21 Oct 2009. . .
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Jesus Garcia, Donna Ogle, Fredrick Risinger, Joyce Stevens, Winthrop Jordan, . Creating America. 1st ed. Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell, 2002. Print.
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Giordano, Robert. "Biography of Edgar Allan Poe." Poe Stories. July 1,2005. Web. 20 Oct 2009. .Wilson, James. "Poe's Life." Poe Museum. 2004. Web. 20 Oct 2009. .E L Doctorow. "Our Edgar. " The Virginia Quarterly Review 82.4 (2006): 241-248. Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 20 Oct. 2009.Jill Lepore. "THE HUMBUG :A Critic at Large. " The New Yorker 27 Apr. 2009: Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 20 Oct. 2009..Jesus Garcia, Donna Ogle, Fredrick Risinger, Joyce Stevens, Winthrop Jordan, . Creating America. 1st ed. Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell, 2002. Print.ill Lepore. "THE HUMBUG :A Critic at Large. " The New Yorker 27 Apr. 2009: Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest. Web. 20 Oct. 2009..poster yourselfKray, Elizabeth. "Edgar Allan Poe." Poets.org. 2009. Web. 21 Oct 2009. People of the society, . "The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe." The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. jan 24, 2009. Web. 21 Oct 2009. ..
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