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Edgar Allan Poe is born
Edgar Allan Poe is born to very poor parents -
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Poe's Life
Poe was born in Bosten to a very poor parents -
Poe gets a sister
Poe's sister Rosalie is born -
Poe's parents die and he gets adopted
Poe's parents die and he gets adopted by a man and a woman named John and Frances Allan -
Poe writes his frist poem
Poe writes his first poem at the age of 15 -
Poe goes into the army and gets published
Poe goes inti the army and then gets published
For all of his problems, in the course of his relatively short life Poe revitalized American literature, producing perfectly crafted stories and poems while creating whole new genres (we have Poe to thank for the detective story, for example). -
Poe's brother dies
Poe's older brother Henry dies from tuberculosis or cholers at the age of 27 -
Poe gets married
At the age of 27 Poe marries his 13 year old first cousin Virginia Clemm
