Facts about Poe
Of the several homes that Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria rented in Philadelphia, only the last house has survived.
William Butler Yeats was occasionally critical of Poe and once called him "vulgar.
The book once again reprinted the long poems "Tamerlane" and "Al Aaraaf" but also six previously unpublished poems including early versions of "To Helen," "Israfel," and "The City in the Sea".
The book was financed with help from his fellow cadets at West Point; they may have been expecting verses similar to the satirical ones Poe had been writing about commanding officers.
The Saturday Visitor, a Baltimore paper, awarded Poe a prize in October 1833 for his short story "MS. Found in a Bottle".
Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the one-year-old University of Virginia in February 1826 to study languages.
Their engagement failed, purportedly because of Poe's drinking and erratic behavior.
Increasingly unstable after his wife's death, Poe attempted to court the poet Sarah Helen Whitman, who lived in Providence, Rhode Island.
The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed "Ludwig."
The Allans served as a foster family but never formally adopted him, although they gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe.
Many of Pompeii's neighboring communities, most famously Herculaneum, also suffered damage or destruction during the 79 C.E.
Originally, Poe intended to call the journal The Penn, as it would have been based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease the public taste.
Poe's success in cryptography relied not so much on his knowledge of that field (his method was limited to the simple substitution cryptogram), as on his knowledge of the magazine and newspaper culture.
Poe was the first well-known American author and poet to try to live on his writing alone.
Poe was promoted to "artificer," an enlisted tradesman who prepared shells for artillery, and had his monthly pay doubled.
The oldest standing home in Richmond, the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, though Poe never lived there.
The earliest surviving home in which Poe lived is in Baltimore, preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.
Griswold depicted Poe as a depraved, drunk, drug-addled madman and included Poe's letters as evidence.
Poe traveled to West Point and matriculated as a cadet on July 1, 1830.
Poe also contributed to the emerging genre of science fiction, responding in his writing to emerging technologies such as hot air balloons in "The Balloon-Hoax".
No childhood home of Poe is still standing, including the Allan family's Moldavia estate.
The historical Edgar Allan Poe has often appeared as a fictionalized character, often representing the "mad genius" or "tormented artist" and exploiting his personal struggles.
Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle.
Poe's regiment was then posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina and traveled there by ship on the brig Waltham on November 8, 1827.
Poe continues to appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television.
The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812.
On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance," according to the man who found him, Joseph W.
Much of Poe's poetry and prose features his characteristic interest in exploring the psychology of man, including the perverse and self-destructive nature of the conscious and subconscious mind which leads to insanity.
In Boston in 2009, the intersection of Charles and Boylston Streets was designated "Edgar Allan Poe Square.
The family, including Poe and Allan's wife, Frances Valentine Allan, sailed to England in 1815.
The sensation Poe created with his cryptography stunt played a major role in popularizing cryptograms in newspapers and magazines.
Poe became assistant editor of the periodical in August 1835; however, within a few weeks, he was discharged after repeatedly being found drunk.
Every January 19, in the early hours of the morning, a figure dressed in black lays three roses and a bottle of cognac at the Poe's original grave marker.
Poe's early detective fiction tales starring the fictitious C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature.
The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears to have roots in his life.
Poe wrote much of his work using themes specifically catered for mass market tastes.
The marriage, and bitter quarrels with Poe over the children born to Allan out of affairs, led to the foster father finally disowning Poe.
In 1946, Poe moved to a cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx, New York.
Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland (where John Allan was born) for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.
A plaque suggests that Poe wrote "The Raven" there.
Poe tactically pled not guilty to induce dismissal, knowing he would be found guilty.
Poe's works remain popular and influential, both in terms of their style and content.
Poe's works often feature an unnamed narrator and the tale or poem tracks his descent into madness.
Poe was discharged on April 15, 1829, after securing a replacement to finish his enlisted term for him.
Poe left Burton's after about a year and found a position as assistant at Graham's Magazine.
Two years later, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore under strange circumstances.
Many of his works are generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to transcendentalism, which Poe strongly disliked.
That same year, he released his first book, a 40-page collection of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, attributed with the byline "by a Bostonian."
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story.
Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, he was soon left without parents; John and Frances Allan took him in as a foster child but they never formally adopted him.
Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations by Charles Baudelaire, which became definitive renditions of Poe's work throughout Europe.
The dorm room Poe is believed to have used while studying at the University of Virginia in 1826 is preserved and available for visits.
On August 15, 2007, Sam Porpora, a former historian at the Westminster Church in Baltimore where Poe is buried, claimed that he had started the tradition in the 1960s.
Perhaps softened by his wife's death, John Allan agreed to support Poe's attempt to be discharged in order to receive an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Eureka was received poorly in Poe's day and generally described as absurd, even by friends.
Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own.
Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.
On January 29, 1845, his poem "The Raven" appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation.
After serving for two years and attaining the rank of Sergeant Major for Artillery (the highest rank a non-commissioned officer can achieve), Poe sought to end his five-year enlistment early.
Poe then returned to Richmond and resumed a relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Elmira Royster, whose husband had died in 1944.
Poe eschewed the scientific method in Eureka and instead wrote from pure intuition.
Reinstated by White after promising good behavior, Poe went back to Richmond with Virginia and her mother.
Members of the Edgar Allan Poe Society in Baltimore have helped in protecting this tradition for decades.
Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods including tobacco, cloth, wheat, tombstones, and slaves.
Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay written in 1848, was subtitled "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe" and included a cosmological theory that presaged the big bang theory by 80 years.
Poe's final home is preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx, New York.
Griswold somehow became Poe's literary executor and attempted to destroy his enemy's reputation after his death.
Meanwhile, Poe published his second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, in Baltimore in 1829.
The effect of Poe's interest in cryptography extended beyond increasing public interest in his lifetime.
Many such depictions also blend in with characters from his stories, suggesting Poe and his characters share identities.
The collection includes many items Poe used during his time with the Allan family and also features several rare first printings of Poe works.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
The Spring Garden home, where the author lived in 1843–1844, is today preserved by the National Park Service as the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site.
Adding to the mystery surrounding Poe's death, an unknown visitor affectionately referred to as the "Poe Toaster" has paid homage to Poe's grave every year since 1949.
Poe's poem The Raven is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.
Other Poe landmarks include a building in the Upper West Side, where Poe temporarily lived when he first moved to New York City.
Some of Poe’s notable dark romantic works include the short stories "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and poems "The Raven" and "Ulalume."
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, named David Poe Jr., and his mother, named Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, were touring actors. Both parents died in 1811, and Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old.
Edgar Allan Poe (/poʊ/; born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
By all accounts, Francis Allan, Poe's foster-mother, was a pious and deeply religious woman. John Allan, while apparently less religious than his wife, strongly adhered to such Christian virtues as hard work, honesty and thriftiness, though one might question the depth of his sense of charity or forgiveness.Jan 14, 2014
The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references.