Edgar Allan Poe Biography

Edgar Allan Poe born on January 19, 1809, was known as the creator of the modern detective story and innovator of the science fiction genre. Although, people identify him because of his horror stories as well as his haunting lyric poetry, there was a different side of him other than a gruesome, mysterious individual prowling in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries. Poe’s childhood was very tragic and affected his adult life when growing up. Poe was the second son of actors David and Elizabeth Poe. Shortly after Poe was born, his father abandoned the family in 1810 and the following death of his twenty-four year old mother in 1811, left Poe an orphan at the young age of three. Poe was adopted by a guy named john, who was a strict unemotional tobacco merchant and his wife Frances Allan, a week women with health issues. His original grandparents only took in his brother William Henry instead of Poe. He was educated with his father’s aid, in private schools, excelling in latin, writing verse, and declamation. Regardless of his education Poe was looed down upon and was considered an outsider by the upper class of Richmond society. It maybe because his foster parents never legally adopted Poe and also regarding his family background. In Poe’s time adulthood did not support actors in high manners, which this could have been attributed to his reputation. Poe childhood shaped him to be one of the most Famous creative poet there is.

Poe moved to Baltimore in 1831 to live with his aunt, Maria Clemm. Later on he fell in love his aunts daughter, Virginia. He became the magazine writer for southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. Poe’s amazing, touching stories and scathing book reviews helped Messenger to become popular real quick. He was ac...

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... and out of the ordinary style is very successful in incorporating the supernatural and evil into his work. He maintains his interest as well as the reader’s by including subjects that are not commonly seen in short stories and poems. Poe’s work is shocking, disturbing, and challenging to read. Some of Poe’s literature has obvious relations to his own life, and how he coped with the problems that he faced. The cause of death remains unknown, although in his obituary it says his cause of death was “congestion of the brain.” He lived and died as a man of mystery and his life is as mysterious today as it was when he lived. It was because of his life experiences of economic troubles, being hurt by his enemies, and haunted by nightmares and visions, that Edgar Allan Poe is currently considered as one of America’s greatest poets, short-story writers, and literary critics.