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Essay on Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. He lost his parents at a very young age and that's why all his work is marked by the idea of death. He was ten when Frances Allan, a rich Scottish merchant's wife, fostered him. He studied in London from 1816 to 1825. When he came back to Richemond, he wrote his first lines for Helen, a friend's mother with whom he was in love.
In 1826 he began attending University of Virginia but he left his studies the following year. He published Tamerlan and other Poems in 1827, represnting the Mongol Emperor as an outlaw. The following year he joins the army and he is sent to Sullivan Isalnd, where he writes The Gold Bug (1843). Thanks to Mr. Allan he gets a job in West Point and writes many poems.
Poe goes to live with his aunt Maria Clemm in Baltimore, and there he marries young Virginia Clemm.
In New York he write The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, his only long novel, inspired by Conrad and Verne. In 1839 he publishes his first volume of tales called Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and he foundes his own newspaper, Pen. Although he eran quite a lot of money, his alcoholism drove him to poverty. He died in Baltimore in 1849.(Web,1)
While the enormous popularity of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short stories and poems continues to highlight his creative brilliance, Poe's renown as the master of horror, the father of the detective story, and the voice of "The Raven" is something of a mixed blessing. Today, Poe is known, read, and appreciated on the basis of a comparatively narrow body of work, roughly a dozen tales and half as many poems. For the novice reader, these favored texts offer easy (but still challenging) access to Poe's most exemplary writing....
