A biography
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer born in the 19th
of January, 1809, in Boston (Massachusetts), USA. He composed poetry, novels
and short stories, especially known for his fantastic and horror
literature. He is considered the father
of psychological terror tale and the gothic novel. When he was two years old,
his father abandoned Poe’s mother, who was pregnant. When his sister Rosalie
was born, they moved to Richmond, Virginia, to some relatives’ house. Not long
after, his mother died and Poe was adopted by a married couple from whom he got
his family name ‘Allan’.
When he was in his
teens, he started to have problems with alcohol, often due to his constant
fighting with his stepfather. He wrote
his two first poetry books, Tamerlane and
other poems (1827) and Al Aaraf,
Tamerlane and minor poems (1829). In 1832 he first got one of histales
published by the Baltimore magazine. In 1834 he married his cousin, Virginia
Clemm, of only 13. During that time, he was the director of some important
publications from Richmond, Boston and Philadelphia. He also lived in New York,
with his wife ill from tuberculosis, where he published his most renowned poem,
The raven (1845).
His wife’s death had
a strong impact on him, and he returned to alcoholism and depression. He is
thought to have died victim of delirium
tremens, an alcohol withdrawal syndrome, in Baltimore the 7th of
October of 1849. Some of his poems were published after his death.
I personally admire
him because of his writing style and especially his poems; they are always dark
and full of mysteries, and I found this very exciting. The first poem I read of
his was The raven.
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