Edgar allan poe full biography of taylor
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Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
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Winter continues imprison describing Poe: "He was a radiant and program extraordinary checker. The treasures of clever, creative, beautifu
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Although not all the mysterious tales of Poe's life are true, it is true that his poetry poignantly captures the eerie atmosphere that surrounds death and the grief of lost love. Though his name is associated with death, macabre, sadness, and the darkness of Gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe is also a light of the literary world.
Fig. 1 - Edgar Allan Poe was rumored to be a terrible madman due to false claims made by his rival, the American editor, Rufus Wilmot Griswold.
Edgar Allan Poe: Biography
Edgar Allan Poe's Biography | |
Birth: | 19th January 1809 |
Death: | 7th October 1849 |
Father: | David Poe Jr. |
Mother: | Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe |
Spouse/Partners: | Virginia Eliza Clemm (1836-1847) |
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Nationality: | American |
Literary Period: | Romanticism |
Edgar Allan Poe's biography starts when he was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. Poe’s biological parents were both traveling actors. His father left his mother a year after he was born, and his mother died a year after that.
Poe was taken in by a wealthy merchant family called the Allans after his mother died. He was only two years old. They gave him the full name, Edgar Allan P
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- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Bayard Taylor,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:715-717
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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