How Does Poe Life Affect Adulthood

One of the greatest poets ever know to man lived during the 18th century. He lived a very dark life which had automatically set the mood for many of his poems. He was not only one of the greatest poets, he was also one of the darkest. Edgar Allen Poe had a strangely intriguing early life and adulthood which immensely affected his famous years in writing. The day is the nineteenth of January, 1809, the fierce howling of the wind muffles the faint cries of a newborn by the name of Edgar Allen Poe. Even though he was the second child of the professional actors known as David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, their first child being William Henry Leonard Poe, they did not need their acting skills to be happy during that moment. (Lasley 1) (Museum News 1) However, that feeling was short lived for before Edgar reached the age of three, his father mysteriously disappear

His first book Tamerlane and Other Poems was published in 1827, it did not , however, receive that much attention. In 1829 his second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, was published. It did receive slightly more attention, but not as much as his later works. His third collection of verse, Poems, was published in 1831, when he was at the age of 22. “Over the next few years Poe’s first short stories appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier and his “MS. Found in a Bottle” won a cash prize for best story in the Baltimore Saturday Visitor” (Edgar Allan Poe 3). Poe, however, still was not earning enough, from writing, to live independently from all the debt he encountered, but when he became an editor for The Southern Literary Messenger, his financial problems were temporarily resolved. Some of his works included: “The Fall of the House of Usher," “The Tell-Tale Heart," “The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and “The Raven.” His work received more attention during the late 1830s and early 1840s yet his profits still remained