Edgar Allan Poe was born to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr. in Boston on January 19, 1809. His mother was an actress, his father, a heavy drinker. Around Poe’s second birthday his father abandoned his wife and three children, leaving Elizabeth to support the family as best she could. The struggle eventually took a toll on her health. She died of tuberculosis in December 1811. John and Frances Allan who never legally adopted young Edgar took him in. In 1815, his new family went to England where Poe attended Manor House School and other schools for five years. It was also in England where young Poe took interest in Gothic literature

Poe lived an extraordinary life, though he never fully attained the fame and success that he sought until after his death in 1849. No one may ever know if any of his life problems affected his ideas or style, or if he simply wrote what he did. His many writings reflect an imagination that most of his readers will only experience when dreaming at night. Poe takes the subject matter death a step further than dreaming it, but yet explores the process. Nearly all of his works consisted of his mother, his wife, and his sister, which who ironically all died from TB.

, which was very popular at that time. However, John Allan forbad him from studying what his heart desired: poetry. When Poe was 15, Jane Stith Standard, a person he looked up to like his idealistic mother, died. In February 1829, an untimely death to his stepmother struck again.

All this success didn’t seem to affect Poe as he watched his bride on her deathbed. He said, “He suffered the horrible, never-ending oscillation between hope and despair.” Virginia died on January 30, 1847. He fell into deep depression but before his death, he wrote his final poem “Annabel Lee.” On October 3, 1849 he was found on a street, half-conscious and

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