"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
Just like his stories and poems, Edgar Allan Poe's life is tragic, dimented, and unique. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, and was the second of three children. Due to the death of both of his parents, he was sent to live with John Allan and his wife in Richmond, Virginia. Ever since his childhood, Poe expressed his love for poetry and literature. He attended the University of Virginia and acquired an impossible amount of debt.
He returned to Richmond only to find that his fiance, Elmira Royster, engaged to another man. Poe, heartbroken, set out to find an adventure of his own, he was determined he would find it in poetry. He published his first work, Tamerlane, at the early age of eighteen.
Not long after, Poe attended West Point and intentionally had himself expelled due to the hostility he felt for Allan. Because he was alone, he seeked hospitality from his aunt, Maria Clemm. It was in her home that he fell in love with her daughter, and his cousin, Virginia Clemm. After Allan's death, twenty-seven year old Poe returned to Richmond to marry thirteen year old Virginia.
In order to find writing oppurtunities, Poe moved from city to city, and began writing some of his most famous stories and poems. He even became engaged again, to Sarah Helen Whitman, another poet, however, this shortly ended. When Poe learned that his first fiance, who now went by Emira Royster Shelton, was a widow, he began to take interest in her again. On his journey to meet her in Philadelphia, Poe disappeared in Baltimore, and was found five days later in a bar, and was rushed to the hospital. At the age of forty, Edgar Allan Poe died from an unknown cause on October 7, 1849.
"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
-Edgar Allan Poe
Just like his stories and poems, Edgar Allan Poe's life is tragic, dimented, and unique. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, and was the second of three children. Due to the death of both of his parents, he was sent to live with John Allan and his wife in Richmond, Virginia. Ever since his childhood, Poe expressed his love for poetry and literature. He attended the University of Virginia and acquired an impossible amount of debt.
He returned to Richmond only to find that his fiance, Elmira Royster, engaged to another man. Poe, heartbr
Not long after, Poe attended West Point and intentionally had himself expelled due to the hostility he felt for Allan. Because he was alone, he seeked hospitality from his aunt, Maria Clemm. It was in her home that he fell in love with her daughter, and his cousin, Virginia Clemm. After Allan's death, twenty-seven year old Poe returned to Richmond to marry thirteen year old Virginia.
In order to find writing oppurtunities, Poe moved from city to city, and began writing some of his most famous stories and poems. He even became engaged again, to Sarah Helen Whitman, another poet, however, this shortly ended. When Poe learned that his first fiance, who now went by Emira Royster Shelton, was a widow, he began to take interest in her again. On his journey to meet her in Philadelphia, Poe disappeared in Baltimore, and was found five days later in a bar, and was rushed to the hospital. At the age of forty, Edgar Allan Poe died from an unknown cause on October 7, 1849.