tragedy, Edgar Allan Poe managed to produce a unique body of writing

securing his place in the literary canon not only as a poet and storyteller, but

also as an inventor of genres. Poe’s accomplishments are even more

impressive when weighed against the personal and professional obstacles he

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1909, where his

actor-parents were playing at the time of his birth. {Encyclopedia

Americana-page 274.} While theater was extremely popular at this time,

actors, with their transient ways and substandard living conditions, were

generally regarded as not quite respectable. {Bloom’s BioCritiques-pages 7. -

10.} Poe’s Father was last known to have appeared on stage in October 19,

1809. {Bloom’s BioCritiques-pages 7. -10.} He left his family shortly

thereafter. He may have died at Norfolk, Va, on October 19, 1810, but no

By July, 1811, Elizabeth Poe was living in Richmond, but she was struggling to care of herself and her children. {Bloom’s BioCritiques-pages 7. -10.} Poe’s mother later died on December

Poe began at this time writing his first poems. One of his headmasters

sympathetic friends.”{Bloom’s BioCritiques-pages 7-10} From their

birth, Boston, where he took the first of several pseudonyms, calling himself

during his two years stint. {www.poemuseum.org/poes_life}While stationed at Fort Independence, Poe prevailed upon a local publisher to print his first volume of verses, Tamerlane and Other Poems, By a Bostonian in 1827 under that name of Edgar A, Perry. To these, he would eventually add six new poems for a volume that would be published in Baltimore under his real name at the end of 1829. {Bloom’s BioCritiques-pages 7-10} After the death of his stepmother in February of 1829, Edgar went back into the United States Military Academy at West Point. {www.allpoe.com/bio} A few months later he learned that John Allan had remarried a woman with children and realized that he would never receive any inheritance from his stepfather. He was dismissed from West Point in March of 1831.

“For my little son Edgar, who should ever love Boston, best, and most

cousin Virginia Clemm, who was just thirteen years old at the time. {Bloom’s

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