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Poe dided in a Bailtamore hospital pennieless. They found Poe in a gutter
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The Allan family sails to London, where Edgar enrolls in school.(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest.(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest. (http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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Poe is appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A few months later he publishes his second book of poetry, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems. (http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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Poe moves his new wife and mother-in-law to New York and then to Philadelphia.(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx. Poe has been so despondent during the final months of her illness that friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism.(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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Poe proposes to a poet named Sarah Helen Whitman, who agrees on the condition that he quit drinking. Poe can't live up to the promise, and Whitman calls off the engagement a month later.(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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Poe travels to Richmond and convinces his childhood sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton, to become his fiancée. He joins the Sons of Temperance, an organization that forbids drinking (sort of like a nineteenth-century equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous). The next month, Poe travels to Baltimore.(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
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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).(http://www.shmoop.com/poe/)
