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Edgar allan poe was born on January 19
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When he was 2 years old on his father he abandoned him
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Parents death
At the age of three Edgar became sad and depressed. His father had already left.In the same year his mother passed away, so he was left alone. A year later he was sent off to a foster family. -
Shortly after his mother died
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The allens
In the year of 1814, Edgar met his foster famity the "Allens." His foster father John Allen and his wife were in charge now. John Allen changed Edgars' future from that day on. -
Poem writing
Edgars Career started here leading to all of his books,short stories, and poems.This is what made him famous to this day.A few of them were "The Raven, Eureka, Berenice, and Ligeia." -
His life as a child:
They were separate and Edgar was adopted by Allen family. John Allen his step father was a successful tardesman so he could attend good school but their relationship was very bad. His step mother couldn’t have children so she loved him very much. Since he was a kid he loved spending time reading magazines, he started writhing poems at the age of 14 years old -
Education
Edgar Allen Poe decied that he wanted to go to the university of Virginia.He loved school but John Allen didn't.Edgar and John had arguments about the school.Then Edgar was having trouble with the funds. -
His life at school:
At the age of 17 he was already attending the University of Virginia but his father stupore sending him money. He started drinking and became an alcohol addict and he had to leave the college -
his military career:
Without money and without a job he decided ti enter in the US Army in 1827. He was 18 years old -
His first book without approval
In the same year he published his first book: “Tamerlane and other poems” by a Bostonian because his father didn’t want him to write and to became a writer and he didn’t want to be discovered -
Edgar is married
at 27 the poet married his cousin Virginia who was only 13 years old -
The death of his wife
In 1847 when he was only 24 the same age of her biological mother and older brother when they died, his side died of tuberculosis -
His death
He died on October 7th 1849 maybe because of brain congestion or his alcoholism but his death still remains a grate mistery since the death certificate never appeared