Edgar Allen Poe: A Brief Biography Of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

He is Edgar Allan Poe. Have you ever seen him? No, you have not. However, his name might be familiar to you guys. He’s the writer of “The Pit and the Pendulum" from Mr. Clark’s literature class last year. However, we only focused on memorizing his name and his work so we could not find out who he really was. He was one of the greatest influential people in literature. It can be helpful for you to learn by remembering the impression from his story.

As a romanticism writer, he worked in many fields. His major was horror and mystery. In our text book, there is short phrase that introduces Poe; “most brilliant, but erratic”. We can be inferred that Poe gave strong impression to readers. He created short story in American Literature. Besides, he contrived detective fiction genre. All types of writing like “Sherlock” were begun by Edgar Allan Poe. One of the reason he was extraordinary was that he lived very uncommonly.

His life was unusual that it was depressed enough to make people gloomy. He was born in January 19, 1809 between two actors David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Ar...