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Edgar is Dead
The Death of Edgar Allen Poe is still a mysterie. The circumstances leading up to it are uncertain. And all is unkown.
I am sorry to dissapoint you with no poems but if you go to this link here you will get your fil l of poems from Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/poe/poe_ind.html And here are some other links for reaserch of Edgar Allen Poe http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php
Edgar Allen Poe was born January 19, 1809 and died October 7, 1849
He was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, he was considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
He was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story genre.
He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
The Raven is one of his most popular and famed poems. And some of the other poems are The Tell-Tale Heart, the Fall of the House of Usher.
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead.
His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” and the Fall of the House of Usher.
In 1826 Poe left Richmond to attend the University of Virginia. Edgar was the second of three children.
Days after Poe’s death, his literary rival Rufus Griswold wrote a libelous obituary of the author in a misguided attempt at revenge for some of the offensive things Poe had said and written about him.
Griswold followed the obituary with a memoir in which he portrayed Poe as a drunken, womanizing madman with no morals and no friends. Griswold’s attacks were meant to cause the public to dismiss Poe and his works.
But the biography had exactly the opposite effect and instead drove the sales of Poe’s books higher than they had ever been during the author’s lifetime.
Griswold’s distorted image of Poe created the Poe legend that lives to this day while Griswold is only remembered (if at all) as Poe’s first biographer.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/16/books/eapoe-SLIDE-SHOW-01-17-2009_index.html
