Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic,
He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him.
Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.
He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.
Poe moved back with the Allans to Richmond, Virginia in 1820. In 1824 Poe served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as Richmond celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.[11] In March 1825, John Allan's uncle[12] and business benefactor William Galt, said to be one of the wealthiest men in Richmond, died and left Allan several acres of real estate.
After his brother's death, Poe began more earnest attempts to start his career as a writer. He chose a difficult time in American publishing to do so. He was the first well-known American to try to live by writing alone and was hampered by the lack of an international copyright law.
TALES
- § "The Black Cat"
- § "The Cask of Amontillado"
- § "A Descent into the Maelström"
- § "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
- § "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- § "The Gold-Bug"
- § "Hop-Frog"
- § "The Imp of the Perverse"
- § "Ligeia"
- § "The Masque of the Red Death"
- § "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
- § "The Oval Portrait"
- § "The Pit and the Pendulum"
- § "The Premature Burial"
- § "The Purloined Letter"
- § "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"
- § "The Tell-Tale Heart"
POETRY
- § "Al Aaraaf"
- § "Annabel Lee"
- § "The Bells"
- § "The City in the Sea"
- § "The Conqueror Worm"
- § "A Dream Within a Dream"
- § "Eldorado"
- § "Eulalie"
- § "The Haunted Palace"
- § "To Helen"
- § "Lenore"
- § "Tamerlane"
- § "The Raven"
- § "Ulalume"
- § Politian (1835) – Poe's only play
- § The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) – Poe's only complete novel
- § "The Balloon-Hoax" (1844) – A journalistic hoax printed as a true story
- § "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) – Essay
- § Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) – Essay
- § "The Poetic Principle" (1848) – Essay
- § "The Light-House" (1849) – Poe's last incomplete work
