Edgar Allan Poe Research Paper

Grandfather of Horror and Mystery

This paper is to tell of the life and works of a dark writer and the grandfather of the mystery genre; Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is best known for is dark or creepy stories and his dark life. He was always seen as a dark, morbid man who stayed in the shadows and kept to himself. A man with a mind that could write poems and stories like: “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, but was orphaned around the age of three when his mother and father died. He was soon taken in by John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan; wealthy tobacco merchants, and husband and wife. Poe and John’s relationship was not a very strong one but Poe adored

He excelled in all of his courses, but obtained a very large and still growing debt in the process. By the time Poe was 18 he published his very first book, “Tamerlane – and Other Poems.” After that he went to look for another type of adventure and enlisted in the United States Army. About two years into his journey with the Army, Poe heard that Frances Allan, the only mother he has ever known, is on her death bed with tuberculosis. This caused Poe to return home, but not in time to see his mother before she passed. He did fix bad ties with Allan, and Allan helped Poe get into the United States Military Academy located in West Point. After a few months in West Point, Poe publishes his second book, “Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems.” Poe soon becomes tired with the military and stops attending classes or going to chapel. For that he is court martialed and dismissed from duty, afterward he makes an effort and publishes another poetry book and quite a few anonymous short

Poe then finds a lady that goes by the name of Sarah Helen Whitman, who tries bring him out of his drunken gutter. She did pull him out, but only for about a month, she called off the engagement when he started drinking again. Poe moves back to Richmond to look for his childhood sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton. Poe and Elmira get engaged and he becomes part of the Sons of Temperance, an organization that forbids drinking altogether. But it is short lived when Poe is found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter and taken to the hospital. Edgar Allan Poe is pronounced dead on October 7, 1849. Exact causes of his death are still