Edgar was born in a humble lodging house near Carver Street, south of Boston Common, on January 19,1809. On the back of a watercolor sketch which Poe treasured, his mother wrote: “For my little son Edgar, who should ever love Boston, the place of his birth, and where his mother found her best, and most sympathetic

Just before the darkest period of Poe’s life, many people believe that Poe began using opium, just because of the simple fact that many of his poems began to contain references to opium use. Poe released a new book of short stories in 1845. Despite its extraordinary originality and the generally favorable reviews, the book was far too ahead of its time and did not sell well. The different reviews that this book received were mixed, even contradictory. It suggested that Poe’s bizarre imagination just could not possibly be tolerated in its time (Timmerman, John Pg. 109).

Therefore by that dear name I have long called you.

Poe’s first autobiographical tale is about a man, “William Wilson”, (The narrator) who is tormented and pursued by his double- an inseparable companion, who mimics all of his actions. Finally, unable to escape his tiresome other self, he stabs him to death. Only to find that he has destroyed his conscience. The story expresses Poe’s dual impulses: To act destructively and to censure his own irrational behavior. Many of Poe’s stories are based on men who get an urge to do something then act on it. Poe believed genius was connected to madness. The unusually intelligent Poe was driven by what he called “The human thirst for self-torment.” The unbearable tensions in Poe’s divided personality led him to perversely self-destructed behavior, to conflict with authority and sometimes to morbid despair (The Modern Library pg. 76).

Are mother to the one I love so dearly,

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