The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe
We celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's birthday on January 19th. Poe is the most influential person in American Literature. He is best known for his poetry, short stories, and tales of mystery and macabre. He was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. His Gothic and mysterious tales are considered a central figure of Romanticism and American literature. He is the author of a number of celebrated works, including The Raven, The Bells of St. Michael, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Raven, and many of his most famous stories were first published in newspapers and magazines.
Poe's Work
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In addition to writing about the paranormal, Poe was also a famous writer of horror. His horror novels were a big hit during his lifetime. He was able to get a large number of publications, and was even in the position to review galleys before they went to press. During his final years, he wrote numerous essays on literature and art. He also edited various magazines, including the Boston Review and The New York Times.
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Paris Adventure
After his marriage, Poe moved to New York City, where he was living with his mother and sister. Following an introduction from James Fennimore Cooper a year later, he sublet a Paris flat from non other than Alexandre Dumas. That is where his deep involvement into military intelligence connected him with Cooper, Samuel Morse, Layfette, and other prominent Americans secretly working in Europe to spread Democracy. Upon his return from Paris, he met with his childhood sweetheart in Wexford, Ireland, and began a lecture tour to raise money for a new magazine. He was planning to marry his childhood sweetheart in Richmond, but his plans changed. When he stopped in Baltimore during his trip to New York, he fell unconscious outside a bar and died four days later. There is twentieth century evidence that his death was murder by poisoning.
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Collections
After leaving the army, Poe lived in Baltimore for a while. He became a lawyer and enlisted in the United States Army as Edgar A. Perry. He joined Battery H of the First Artillery stationed in Boston Harbor. In 1838, he published his first collection of short stories, Tamerlane and Other Poems. He was only twenty-three years old when he published the book, so he did not have time to read the proofs. However, the manuscript was published by his cousin, Calvin Frederick Stephen Thomas.
The "The Raven" is one of Poe's best-known works. It is a poem about the loss of love and death. The narrator is unknown, and the poem is composed of 18 six-line stanzas. It was published in the New York Tribune on October 9, 1849. In the same year, it was published in the newspaper, the Messenger, and the Guardian. It is a classic example of the mind of an artist.
Journalism Career
While Poe was a scholar of literature, his passion for writing led him to pursue a career in journalism. While Poe studied classics, he also studied the rhetoric of Scottish common-sense philosophers. After the death of his foster father, he became an editor for the Richmond Southern Literary Messenger.