There he studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until summer 1817. The family sailed to the United Kingdom in 1815, and Poe attended the grammar school for a short period in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland (where Allan was born) before rejoining the family in London in 1816. John Allan alternately spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son.
The Allan family had Poe baptized into the Episcopal Church in 1812.
The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", though they never formally adopted him. Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods, including cloth, wheat, tombstones, tobacco, and slaves. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died a year later from consumption ( pulmonary tuberculosis). Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, which the couple were performing in 1809. Their grandfather, David Poe Sr., emigrated from County Cavan, Ireland, around 1750. He had an elder brother named William Henry Leonard Poe and a younger sister named Rosalie Poe. Plaque in Boston marking the approximate location of Poe's birthĮdgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe Jr. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. He and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. Poe and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. The cause of his death remains unknown, and has been variously attributed to many causes including disease, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide. He planned for years to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), but before it could be produced, he died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, at age 40, under mysterious circumstances. In January 1845, Poe published his poem " The Raven" to instant success. In 1836, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, but she died of tuberculosis in 1847. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declared a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and parted ways with Allan. Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement after the death of Allan's wife in 1829. In 1827, having enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name, he published his first collection Tamerlane and Other Poems, credited only to "a Bostonian". He quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education, and his gambling debts. He attended the University of Virginia but left after a year due to lack of money. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well into young adulthood. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia.
Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Edgar Allan Poe ( / p oʊ/ born Edgar Poe Janu– October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic.
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