Edgar Allan Poe Research Paper

Noah Kendall

LIT 1000

Prof. Heintz

March 29 2015

Word count: 1,302

Biography on Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the world’s best fictional writers. In this era, people have created wonderful movies out of Edgar Allan Poe’s books he wrote in the 1800s. This goes to show people just how well written his books and poems were. He was also a critic and was a magazine editor. Some people of this world do not even began to know how much he went through to becoming this great writer and how he got ideas for his books and poems he wrote that are still being bought till this day.

Edgar Allan Poe was the middle child of two professional actors. Edgar’s mother died from consumption and the father abandon his children. The

He then started to live with his Aunt Maria Clemm and her brother. Edgar actually meet his wife there. After he lived there for awhile and then “On May 11 he called on William Wirt to obtain help in publishing another volume of poems and the next day went to Philadelphia to try to get Carey, Lea & Carey to publish them. Allan refused indignantly to guarantee a small amount and on July 28 Poe withdrew his manuscript. He now secured Hatch & Dunning of Baltimore as his publishers, and, heralded by notices by John Neal [q.v.] in the Yankee; and Boston Literary Gazette for September and December 1829”.(“Edgar Allan Poe” Dictionary). Also in that December he had another volume as Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and some minor poems. Edgar Allen Poe was now married to a beautiful women named Barrett Shelton. Some people thought that his Tamerlane was “revised and seems to echo Poe's love affair with Miss Royster”(“Edgar Allan Poe” Dictionary). In January 1830, Edgar went back to Richmond. He and Mr. Allen had fights still until Edgar passed all the exams required to get into West Point and then joined the academy on that July

Allan. In that October Mr. Allan married another women and Edgar was not going to get anything else from the family because of this new marriage. Allan wrote to Edgar and disowned him, this made him “determined to leave the army entirely. He deliberately neglected his roll calls and academic duties and was dismissed for ‘gross neglect of duty’ and ‘disobedience of orders’ on Mar. 6, 1831”(“Edgar Allan Poe” Dictionary). He then went back to Baltimore and lived with Mrs.Clemm. In June 1832, he went back to Richmond to see the unhealthy Mr. Allan and had a fight with the second Mrs. Allan. This made Mr. Allan angry and threw Edgar out of the house. Edgar never saw is foster father again before Mr. Allan died March 27, 1834. In Mr. Allan’s will “He provided for his legitimate and several natural children in his will but did not mention Poe”(“Edgar Allan Poe”