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Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother and father where both actors, David and Elizabeth Arnold. They had financial difficulties, which soon caused the father to abandon the family. Poe's mother soon had another child; however, she was having physical conditions causing her death on December 8, 1811. Becoming orphans, both Poe and his sister were split up in family friend’s houses. Poe went to live with the Allan's. As Poe grew up he started having problems with his John Allan, his foster father, which caused future problems. Poe's first step to start a career was attending the University of Virginia in 1826. "Allan failed to provide Poe with enough money for necessities such as furniture and books and Poe soon ran up a tremendous gambling debt and began drinking, despite his very low tolerance for alcohol" (Loveday 2). After a time he moved to Boston, "The Great Literature Capital." What was helping Poe start of his career, where the big hopes of one day becoming a writer despite the harsh life he had since he was little. Poe's work has had an impact on literature. Throughout his most famous pieces of literature, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Raven," and "The Cast of Amontillado," we see common factors that influenced these types of works through his plots and characters. "Madness, alienation, and mankind's long love affair with morbidity were the his subjects, and he didn't mind admitting to being more to being more than half in love with easeful death, to mangle a line from his favorite poet, Tennyson," (Allen 2).
Poe is most famous for creating an aura of suspense and terror in his stories including horrible crimes scenes. Montressor, one of Poe's characters, is a descend...

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Loveday, Veronica. "Edgar Allen Poe." Biography Collection Complete n.d.: 1-5. Rpt. in N.p.: n.p., n.d. 1-5. EBSCO. Web. 10 Dec. 2013. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=5&sid=bac9b33c-8a9f-4df5-a63d-334b8fed807f%40sessionmgr110&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=b5h&AN=17887368 Unrue, Darlene Harbour. "Edgar Allen Poe: The Romantic as Classicist." International Journal of the Classical Tradition. n.d.: 1-10. Rpt. in Academic Search Premier. 4th ed. Vol. 1. N.p.: Springfiled95, n.d. 1-10. EBSCO. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
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