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Born in Boston, Mass.
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Rosalie M. Poe, the sister of EAP. Born in Northfolk, Virginia.
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Elizabeth died of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia.
The father, David, was out of the picture and there is little information about his death other than he died in Norfolk, Virginia. Edgar was then taken in by Richmond couple, his sister to another, and his older brother Henry to his paternal grandparents. -
"Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest." This poem was never published in his lifetime and not used in another longer poem.
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William Henry Leonard Poe, who was also an amateur poet, sailor, and older brother of Poe. He died in Baltimore, MD.
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Virginia Clemm was Poe's first wife. The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia Clemm was 13.
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When Poe enlisted in the US Army he went under a different name, Edgar A. Perry.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus.
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
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The poem is noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.
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She died of tuberculosis in their home in Bronx.
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He died in the Church Home and Hospital in Baltimore. One of the most recent theories about Poe's death suggests that the author succumbed to a brain tumor, which influenced his behavior before his death. When Poe died, he was buried, rather unceremoniously, in an unmarked grave in a Baltimore graveyard
