Edgar Allan Poe Research Paper

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Our friend Edgar Allan Poe has passed. Edgar was born on January 19, 1809 and died on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 40. He was adopted by John and Frances Allan after his parents; Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe were deceased. The Allans baptized him as Edgar Allan Poe on January 7, 1812. In 1814, he begun school, and in 1815 the Allans leave Richmond and move to England. His teachers in his boarding school in refer to him as "Master Allan" and later in 1818 he moves to different English school. On Febraury, Poe enters the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and finds out that is childhood crush Amanda Royster is engaged to be married. Poe moves from Richmond to Baltimore in 1827 and is later enlisted in the U.S. Army as Edger A. Perry. Edgar's first book Tamerlane and Other Poems are published in Baltimore. Frances Allan dies on February 29 , but Edgar is not at her burial. Edgar's second book is published …show more content…

He is later dismissed from West Point and moves back to Baltimore. His book Poems is published in New York. In July 1831, Poe enters several stories in a contest sponsored by Philadelphia Saturday Courier and does not win first place the magazine later publishes five of his stories without giving him proper credit. His older brother dies on August 1 because of tuberculosis or cholera. In October, he enters MS. Found in a bottle and wins a $50 first prize. In 1834, his father John Allan dies and leaves nothing in his will for Poe. In 1835, Poe moves back to Baltimore. Edgar married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was 13, on May 16, 1836 when he is 27. In the year 1836, he also becomes the editor of Thomas W. White's Southern Literary Messenger. He is later fired from his job in 1837 and moves his family to New York and later moves his family to Philadelphia in 1838. In 1839, he becomes the editor of the Gentleman's

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