Edgar Allen Poe

Poe then moved to New York, and with the help of some money raised by his West Point friends, he published his first poems in 1831. Poe next took up residence in Baltimore, with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia. He turned to fiction as a way to support himself. The Philadelphia Saturday Corrier published five of Poe’s stories. In 1883, one of his pieces won a fifty-dollar prize given by the Baltimore Sunday advisor (Regan 2,3).

Using fiction as a means of support, five of his stories were published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier in 1832. In 1833 he won a fifty-dollar prize from the Baltimore Saturday Visitor with his short story M.S. Found In A Bottle. In 1835, Poe, his aunt, and Virginia, moved to Richmond where he married Virginia. She wasn't even fourteen when they married.

Not much else is known about his childhood, except that it was uneventful. In 1826, when Poe was seventeen years old he entered the University of Virginia. It was also at this time that he was engaged to marry his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Elmira Royster. He was a good student, but only stayed for a year. He did not have enough money to make ends meet, so he ran up extremely large gambling debts to trying make more money.

Poe used fiction writing as a means of supporting himself, and with in December 1835, Poe began editing the Southern Literary Messenger for Thomas W. White in Richmond. Poe held this position until January, 1837. During this time, Poe married his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, in Richmond on May 16, 1836. After spending fifteen fruitless months in New York, Poe moved to Philadelphia. Shortly after he arrived, his novella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was published and widely reviewed.

But Poe's later rediscovery by the French poets Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, and Paul Valery helped restore his reputation. Poe married in his thirteen year old cousin in 1936, Virginia Clemm. When Virginia died in 1947, Poe then sank into poor health and his literary productivity declined. In 1849, Poe became engaged to marry the widowed Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, his boyhood sweetheart.

The tobacco industry collapsed after only three years of their stay, and the... ... middle of paper ... ...engagement was broken off. Edgar returned to Richmond in 1989 hoping to find financial support for his own journal, but was unsuccessful. He, however, reunited with Elmira, his first love, who had been widowed, and they re-engaged. Edgar, then, sailed from Richmond to Baltimore in Oct. 1849. A short time later, Edgar Allan Poe was found outside a polling place, in a state of delirium.

Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston on January 19.1890. His family consisted of his parents, who were traveling actors, his brother, William Henry Leonard Poe and his sister, Rosalie Poe. Edgar’s parents, however, died when he was only three years old. Edgar’s siblings were then split up to live with other family members, but a wealthy tobacco merchant, John Allan, and his wife, Frances Valentine Allan, took in Edgar and raised them as their own. Poe was raised in Richmond, Virginia and had dreams of becoming a writer, although John preferred he be a businessman.

The Allan’s 

served as a foster family and gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", though they never 

formally adopted him. While with the Allan’s, Poe moved frequently first to Irvine, 

Scotland then to London and then finally back to Richmond, Virginia. Four years after 

returning to Richmond Poe served as a lieutenant in the Richmond youth honor guard 

sparking his military career. Shortly there after Poe decided to attended University of Virginia for 

ancient and modern language, after a year he became unable to pay for classes and dropped out. He moved to Boston and attempting to support himself with various odd jobs but to no avail and 

in May 27th 1827 he enlisted in the United States Army as a private.

Allan was a Richmond merchant. Poe attended the University of Virginia for a very short time period. He then went to Boston and published a pamphlet containing youthful Byronic poems in 1827. Poe found himself in a mans home who did not want him there, and refused to financially help him with what he needed. Poe went to the University of Virginia for about a year and later on had to drop out because he could not afford it any longer, and fell in debt.

Edgar soon went into debit and began heavy drinking and gambling, he quit school less than a year. Paragraph 3: He went to Boston where he published a pamphlet of youngful Byronic poems, “Tanner lane” and others Work: Paragraph 1: Edgar had no money and no job skills so he decided to go to the U.S Army he did fairly well, he retained rank as sergeant major and they changed his named from Edgar Allan Poe to Edgar Allan Perry, after his foster mom died John Allan purchased his release and singed his applicant to west point before beginning in the military he wrote “Al Aaraaf”... ... middle of paper ... ...ancially. In 1844 Poe moved back to New York, him and his family moved into a cottage on what’s now East 192nd street, Virginias health got bad and she died in 1847. After all the depression he relapsed Paragraph 3: in June of 1849 Poe left New York and back to Philadelphia, he left Philadelphia in July and came back to Richmond he joined “The Sons of Temperance” in effort to stop drinking he reunited with Sarah Shelton and planned to marry her in October. On September 27, he left Richmond again to New York he went to Philadelphia and stayed with James P. Moss, a friend.