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  Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edgar Allan Poe was born to a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the son of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.
Poe associated the aesthetic aspect of art with pure ideality claiming that the mood or sentiment created by a work of art elevates the soul, and is thus a spiritual experience.
Poe himself was critical of democracy and capitalism (in his story "Mellonta Tauta," Poe proclaims that "democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs" [8]), and the tragic poverty and misery of Poe's biography seemed, to Baudelaire, to be the ultimate example of how the bourgeoisie destroys genius and originality.
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 Edgar Allan Poe - Simple English Wikipedia
Poe made peace with his stepfather and went back to Richmond, where he enrolled in West Point, the academy for army officers in New York State.
Poe knew that the only way to be excused from West Point was to be expelled.
Poe was poorly paid for his stories and he received almost nothing for his poems.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe   (1128 words)

  
 E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
David Poe, Jr., her husband, was one of the seventy victims that perished in the burning theatre on the 26th of the same month.
In the spring of 1846 Poe removed to Fordham, in Westchester County, that the pure air of the country might be beneficial to his wife, now in a rapid decline, and to his own failing strength, exhausted by mental effort, pecuniary anxieties, and by watching at the sick-bed of his cherished wife.
Neilson Poe, at the close of a municipal election, in a state of stupefaction, in a back room of the Fourth Ward polls, and the presumption is that he had been “cooped” by one of the political clubs, drugged, and made to vote in the different wards of the city.
www.eapoe.org /PAPERS/misc1851/1879biog.htm   (2112 words)

  
 WILLIAM HENRY LEONARD POE
David Poe was the son of John and worked as a dry goods merchant.
The Poe family tried to help the brothers stay in contact with one another, but the Allan family was not interested in maintaining contact with the Poe family.
Sarah Royster "left a recollection of a call at her home by the two Poe brothers." It appears that Henry was in the Navy or the Merchant Marine at time because Miss Royster remarks that Henry was dressed in a uniform that seemed to be that of a midshipman.
www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/poeperplex/whlpoep.htm   (1770 words)

  
 Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Alexander Poe
Poe was aquitted by the jury after being charged with being a public disturber of the peace, as oppressor and calumniator of the king's subjects, and a stirrer-up of strife among them.
David Poe was the son of John and namesake and grandson of David Poe of the Scotch Covenanter of 1667.
David Poe, Scotch-Irish from the Parish of Fenwick, in Ayrshire, Scotland, intermarried with Allans and Galts.
www.poe.ourfamily.com /poe.html   (15755 words)

  
 Edgar Allan Poe Biography - Poems
Poe never had the chance to meet his father and at the age of three his mother passed away.
Poe's next venture was to Baltimore, Maryland with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia.
Poe was never conscious long enough to explain what had happened or why he was wearing clothes which he did not own.
www.poemofquotes.com /edgarallanpoe   (620 words)

  
 Poe, Edgar Allan LiteraryTraveler.com
Edgar Allan Poe is known for his macabre tenor, opposition of the didactic, and biting critical voice.
Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 to David Poe Jr., a second generation Irishman, and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, English born but raised in America.
Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia in 1826 where he acquired gambling debts which John Allan refused to pay and Poe was forced to withdraw from the university.
www.literarytraveler.com /authors/edgar_allan_poe.aspx   (524 words)

  
 E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore - Poe Chronology
Poe, who you know is a very handsome woman, happens to be very sick, and (having quarreled and parted with her husband) is destitute" The Poe Log, p.
Poe from July 26, 1811 in the Norfolk Herald, however clearly suggests that David Poe was already not with the family: "Left alone, the only support of herself and several small children.
David Poe was last known to have appeared on stage on October 18, 1809, The Poe Log, p.
www.eapoe.org /geninfo/poechron.htm   (4348 words)

  
 Edgar Allan Poe
Poe suffered from bouts of depression and madness, and he attempted suicide in 1848.
Poe's work and his theory of "pure poetry" was early recognized especially in France, where he inspired Jules Verne, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Paul Valéry (1871-1945) and Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898).
In his supernatural fiction Poe usually dealt with paranoia rooted in personal psychology, physical or mental enfeeblement, obsessions, the damnation of death, feverish fantasies, the cosmos as source of horror and inspiration, without bothering himself with such supernatural beings as ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and so on.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /eapoe.htm   (1923 words)

  
 Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Famous Poets -- Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Poe was born on January 19,1809 to Eliza and David Poe, Jr.
Poe's short and tragic life was plagued with insecurity.
Poe believed that strangeness was an essential ingredient of beauty, and his writing is often exotic.
www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/famous/poe/edgar.html   (507 words)

  
 Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Poe was born on Jan. 19, 1809, to David Poe Jr.
Poe's writing gradually gained respect when his two-volume Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque came out in 1839.
Most poems by Poe exist in a number of different versions because he was inclined to revise them after their first publication, sometimes as a result of a friend's request for a manuscript copy or of a public reading.
www.larsthompson.com /Poetry/Poe.html   (478 words)

  
 A Poe Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Poe is chosen by his fellow students to write and deliver a farewell ode to the teacher.
During the summer, Poe falls in love with Elmira Royster and is apparently engaged to her.
Poe is, the same day, admitted to the Washington College Hospital at Broadway and Hampstead streets in Baltimore where he dies on October 7.
www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/poeperplex/chronhis.htm   (4039 words)

  
 Maria "Muddy" Poe Clemm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Maria Poe, the younger sister of Edgar's father David Poe Jr., was born of Irish ancestry on March 17, 1790 to David Poe Sr.
Poe's letter to Maria and Virginia Clemm, August 29, 1835.
The Reverend Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Poe's arch-enemy and false friend to the poet, convinced Maria that Edgar had chosen him to be the executor of his estate and acquired the copyright to his works.
www.poeforward.com /virginiawomb/muddy/muddy.htm   (1180 words)

  
 Poe Biography
After his mother’s death, Poe was sent to live with John and Frances Allan, who gave him a life radically different from the one he had known.
Poe, although widely respected in his youth, was rumored to have become crazy as he got older.
Edgar A. Poe: A Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance.
www.mail-production.com /poebiography.html   (1924 words)

  
 Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, son of Actress Eliza Poe and Actor David Poe Jr., born 19th of January 1809, was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism.
Edgar called it a second edition though and it was entitled "Poems by Edgar A. Poe" in which his famous poems "To Helen" (another ve rsion was published in 1848) and "Israfel" appeared.
In 1835 Poe brought his aunt and cousin to Richmond where he worked with Thomas Willis White at the Southern Litterary Messenger.
www.csua.berkeley.edu /~allan/poeDescrip.html   (602 words)

  
 poe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809.
Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia.
Edgar Allan Poe was an alcoholic throughout his life, this shortened his lifetime and so he died October 7, 1849.
www.swlauriersb.qc.ca /schools/olp/poets/poe.htm   (380 words)

  
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