Edgar Allan Poe was a very talented writer and poet but some people may disagree. John Brooks Moore states (1926) “ That Poe was apparently first of all a journalist- neither a poet nor a writer…”(Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism 55, p.135). Most people don’t agree and say he was writer/poet due to his work that he has done. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, he was born into a family of professional actors. His mother was named Elizabeth Arnold Poe and his father was named David Poe Jr, they were both actors. Unfortunately his mother died of tuberculosis when he was 3 years old. And his father also abandoned the family when he was a year old. After all this Poe was sent to live in Virginia with a wealthy couple, John