... . It was there that he wrote "the Raven-. Poe borrowed some money and in that fall he bought the Broadway Journal and it fell through in 1846. On January 30, 1847, his wife and cousin Virginia died, Poe fell into a bad depression and heavy drinking. Poe came out of his depression by writing some ... that ended when he called upon her when he was drunk. In 1849 Poe wrote his last poem "Annabel Lee- and had a relatively stable life. But on October 3, 1849, on Election Day Poe was found ill, lying half conscious in the street outside of a polling place and a few yards from a bar. Whether he...

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