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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is considered part of the American Romantic movement and is famous for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Both of Poe's parents were professional actors and died before he was three years old, so he was raised by John and Frances Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Poe had a turbulent relationship with the Allans and left school before graduating, later briefly serving in the army before embarking on his career as a writer, poet and literary critic, working for numerous journals and periodicals. He is now widely considered an innovator in the genres of horror and detective fiction as well as the

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is considered part of the American Romantic movement and is famous for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Both of Poe's parents were professional actors and died before he was three years old, so he was raised by John and Frances Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Poe had a turbulent relationship with the Allans and left school before graduating, later briefly serving in the army before embarking on his career as a writer, poet and literary critic, working for numerous journals and periodicals. He is now widely considered an innovator in the genres of horror and detective fiction as well as the

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is considered part of the American Romantic movement and is famous for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Both of Poe's parents were professional actors and died before he was three years old, so he was raised by John and Frances Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Poe had a turbulent relationship with the Allans and left school before graduating, later briefly serving in the army before embarking on his career as a writer, poet and literary critic, working for numerous journals and periodicals. He is now widely considered an innovator in the genres of horror and detective fiction as well as the

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    EDGAR ALLAN POE

    Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809


    in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an American
    author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered
    part of the American Romantic Movement. Poe
    is famous for his tales of mystery and the
    macabre. He was one of the earliest American
    practitioners of the short story, and is generally
    considered the inventor of the detective fiction
    genre Both Poe’s father and mother were
    professional actors. They died before the poet
    was three years old. John and Frances Allan
    raised him as a foster child in Richmond,
    Virginia. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to
    lack of money. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and
    enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time his
    publishing career began, although humbly, with an anonymous collection of
    poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". With
    the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary
    rapprochement. Later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point and declaring a
    firm wish to be a poet and writer, Poe parted ways with John Allan. After his early
    attempts at poetry, Poe had turned his attention to prose. He spent the next
    several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his
    own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities,
    including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he
    married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe published his
    poem, "The Raven", to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years
    after its publication. For years, he had been planning to produce his own journal,
    The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced.
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    On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is
    unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera,
    drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. Edgar Allan
    Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world,
    as well as in specialized fields. He is considered as one of the originators of both
    horror and detective fiction. He is also credited as the “architect” of the modern
    short story. As a critic he was one of the first writers to put emphasis on the effect
    of style and structure. He was thus a forerunner to the "art for art's sake"
    movement. Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations
    by Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire's translations became definitive renditions of
    Poe's work throughout Europe. Poe and his work appear throughout popular
    culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are
    dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual
    award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. •

    TAKEN FROM Allen, Hervey (1927). "Introduction". The Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
    New York: P. F. Collier & Son.
    https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-edgar-allan-poe-
    biography.php

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