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Edgar Allan Poe

  • Born

    Born
    Born in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was called by his parents, actors David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold
  • abandoned

    abandoned
    His mother died of tuberculosis,
    before reaching the age of three years, and abandoned by his father
  • school

    school
    He studied in England, the Manor House School, between 1815 and 1820, when he returned to America to begin his literary activity
  • return

    return
    1820, returned to America to begin his literary activity. He joined the West Point Military Academy and later was editor
  • first poem

    first poem
    In 1824 he wrote a poem of two lines, considered his earlier production, which was not published until after his death.
  • good bye house

    good bye house
    he distanced himself from his foster father for economic reasons, because he refused to pay his debts, caused by a lifetime of games and alcohol, dropping out of school, and published in Boston "Tamerlane and Other Poems"
  • "the Aaraf, Tamerlane and other small poems"

    "the Aaraf, Tamerlane and other small poems"
    published in Baltimore, his second book "The Aaraf, Tamerlane and other small poems."
  • Manuscript Found in a Bottle

    Manuscript Found in a Bottle
    he is awarded the magazine's Saturday Visiter Baltimore, for his story "Manuscript Found in a Bottle."
  • wedding

    wedding
    marries a girl of only thirteen years old, his cousin, Virginia Clemm, who settled in Philadelphia.
  • until death do us part

    until death do us part
    Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847, and the author channeled his anguish in the spirit which led him to madness
  • a literary memory

    a literary memory
    After the death of his wife, published "Eureka, a prose poem
  • goodbye Edgar Allan Poe

    goodbye Edgar Allan Poe
    He died at a hospital in Baltimore, when he had decided to marry the love of his youth, Elvira Sarah Shelton.