Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar Allan Poe’s tumultuous childhood can be seen as the source of his dark and devious writing. At the age of two Poe’s mother Elizabeth Arnold Poe died. Poe was then taken in by John Allan, a tobacco-merchant, who barely helped struggling Poe. John Allan failed to give Poe enough money for any expenses Poe had. John Allan even went to the extent to not allowing Poe to attend his second term at the University of Virginia (Wilson, James 1). His strenuously warped childhood is reflected in many of his greatest works.

Poe published his first volume of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in Boston after all ties were broken with his stepfather

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