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He was Born in Boston to Elizabeth Arnold Poe, and David Poe Jr., and his older brother Henry Poe.(Schmoop)
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He lived until he was 40.
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Both of his parents die of Tuberculosis forcing him and his siblings (Younger sister Rosalie and older brother Henry) to split up into different foster families. Edgar is fostered by John and Frances Allan from Richmond Virginia.(Schmoop)
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" In the course of his relatively short life Poe revitalized American literature, producing perfectly crafted stories and poems." ( Schmoop)
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The Poem's name was "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."(Schmoop)
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Poe becomes a heavy gambler and alcoholic which results in him dropping out of college and splitting with the Allans because of a $ 2,000 debt. He then joins the armyafter publishing his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems". (Schmoop)
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Poe is now a sergeant major in the Army. His foster mother, Frances Allan, dies. He was still close to her at the time, and her death saddened him.
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Poe at the age of 27, marries his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm in Virginia.
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Poe publishes his first novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym". Then in 1840 he publishes his story collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque".
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"Poe begins as an editor at Graham's Magazine, where he works until May 1842. The magazine runs Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the first-ever entry in a genre now known as the detective story" (Shmoop).
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Poe publishes one of hist most popular Poems even today called " The Raven". (Schmoop)
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Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuburculosis, sending him on a downward spiral of alchoholism and grief. ( Schmoop)
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Poe convinces his childhood sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton, to marry him. He joins the Sons of Temperance, an organization that forbids drinking. ( Schmoop)
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Poe was found disheveled unconcious in a gutter in Baltimore. When taken to the hospital he was pronounced dead.(Schmoop)
