demy. Poe was accepted but was dismissed for neglect of duty after only a short time. Allan then disowned Poe, permanently. A couple of years later Poe’s third book, Poems, was published. He moved again, now to Baltimore, where he lived with his aunt and her eleven year-old daughter, Virginia Clemm. The next year he released another book, A MS. Found in a Bottle, with this he won a writing contest. Poetry Poe became an editor shortly after the contest, he worked for Southern Literary Messenger. During these two years at the company he married his younger cousin, Virginia. Viriginia became ill, and Poe moved from job to job. After eleven years of marriage, Virginia died and Poe himself became ill. He had a dangerous addiction to liquor and drugs. These addictions are claimed to be the reason for Poe’s early death in 1849 (Davidson). One of Poe’s greatest poems, published only a few years before his death, was “The Raven.” The poem starts off with a man falling asleep, when a tapping starts at his door. He lets it go, figuring it to be a visitor, not sure if he heard it in the first place. He begins thinking of the woman he has lost for evermore, Lenore. Finally, he opens the door, for the tapping comes again only louder, but there is no one there. He whispers into the darkness - Lenore? No answer. The tapping starts again as he crawls into bed, this t

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