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The Portable Poe -Biography
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Both his Parents died before he was 3 years old. pg. 1
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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Had a bad relationship with his foster-father John Allen. pg.1
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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He was forced to withdraw from University of Virginia becuase Allen (Foster Father) refused to finance him pg.1
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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"His Early work went unrecognized and he was forced to make a living on Newspapers working as an editor in Richmond, Philadelphia and New York" pg. 1
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The Portable Poe -Major Works
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"The Raven and Other Poems" 1845- his first grand success. pg.1
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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Poverty stricken his entire life despite his fame pg. 1
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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In 1836 he married his fourteen year old cousin Virginia. pg.1
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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Virginia died of tuberculosis in 1847. pg. 29
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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Poe died mysteriously in 1849 of unkown causes. pg. 1
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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Poe was buried in Baltimore beside his wife in 1849. pg.1
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The Portable Poe -Major Works
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A Dream Within a Dream 1827- very much like "Inception" pg.588
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The Portable Poe -Major Works
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The Raven- published in 1845 pg.616
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The Portable Poe -Major Works
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Annabel Lee- published in 1849 pg.632
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Black Cat & Cask/Amontillado -Biography
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Poe's Alcoholism is portrayed in his characters such as Black Cat madman and Fortunado Pg. no specific page
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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"I have a great deal to do; and I have made up my mind not to die till it is done." ~ Edgar A. Poe, 1846 pg.28
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The Portable Poe -Biography
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"My poor Virginia still lives, although failing fast and now suffering much pain,"~ Edgar A. Poe, 1847. pg. 28
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"The Raven" Edgar Allan Poe (Enotes.com) -Biography
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Poe was born on January 19, 1809 no pg.
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Teach This Lit (worldpress.com) -Impact on American Poetry
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"A poem, in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having, for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth" no pg.
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Teach This Lit (worldpress.com) -Impact on American Poetry
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Poe developed a "Philosophy of Composition" based on the process by which he wrote The Raven. This emphasizes the importance of beauty as the only purpose of art in poetic writing. no pg.
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Teach This Lit (worldpress.com)- Literary criticism
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Poe's work first gained international appreciation by the "French Symbolist" poetic movement. Most notably was Charles Baudelaire. no pg.
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Poe's Theory of Poetry (neabigread.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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"the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." ~Edgar A. Poe (1848) pg. 1
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Poe's Theory of Poetry (neabigread.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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In 1848 Poe gave a lecture in Rhode Island to 2,000 people called "The Poetic Principle" pg. 1
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Poe's Theory of Poetry (neabigread.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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In Poe's "Poetic Principle" he emphasizes that poem's cannot be long and are to be read "in one sitting" pg. 1
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Poe's Theory of Poetry (neabigread.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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Poe defines poetry as "The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty." pg. 1
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Poe's Theory of Poetry (neabigread.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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In Poe's view, Passion addresses the heart, Duty the conscience, and Truth the mind, but in "the contemplation of Beauty we alone find it possible to attain that pleasurable elevation, or excitement, of the soul, which we recognize as the Poetic Sentiment. pg. 1
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Contemporary Literary Criticism (eNotes.com) -Impact on American Poetry
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In his theory of composition, he advises the poet to work towards creating a total phsycological and spiritual effect upon the reader and put them through an intense state of mind as they follow the intenesely changing mindset of the characters. no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com) -Literary Criticism
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"The Raven may be among our most famous bad poems." ~Dave Smith (1995) no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com) -Literary Criticism
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Daniel Hoffman believes that The Raven is among poems that are "terrible poems, but they are, undeniably, unforgettable." (1971) no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com) -Literary Criticism
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Some Critics like Daniel Hoffman compare The Raven to Chineese Water Torture. no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com)- Major Works
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Annabel Lee is Virginia, the childhood bride of Poe's later years. no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com) -Literary Criticism
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Interperetation by Edward H. Davidson (1957): "In Poe the child became the man; and the mother who never came in the dark of the night grew into the demon lover, the poltergeist, who was to haunt him in all his poetry." no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com) -Literary Criticism
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Shoshana Felman defends Poe as "being at once the most admired and the most decried of American poets." (2008) no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com) -Impact on American Poetry
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Edgar Allan Poe is a Major figure in American Literature. Considered the "Heir to English Romantisism who in turn influenced both modernism and the French Symbolist movement." no pg.
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Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (eNotes.com)- Literary Criticism
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Note: Generally more appreciated internationally (specifically in France) than in the United States. This is symbolic through Charles Baudelaire's praise of Poe's work during his lifetime no pg.
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Poetry Criticism (eNotes.com)- Literary Criticism
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The Raven was not critisized so much for it's beautifully expressed content, but more for its technical poetic absurdities, inconsistencies and parallelism. no pg.
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Academy of American Poets (Poets.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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Poe is one of the originators of horror and detective fiction regarding his poetry and short stories. no pg.
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Academy of American Poets (Poets.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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One of the first critics to focus primarily on the effect, style and structure of a poem and the formula through which to create a succesful poem. no pg.
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Academy of American Poets (Poets.org) - Impact on American Poetry
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Champion of the movement for productiong "art for art's sake"
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The Memoir of Edgar Allan Poe -Biology
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"I became Insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." ~Edgar Allan Poe (1847). pg.14
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Good Reads (goodreads.com)- Impact on American Poetry
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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."~Edgar A. Poe no pg.
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Good Reads (goodreads.com)- Biography/Impact/Major Works
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"There is no exquisite beauty... without some strangeness in the proportion." ~Edgar Allan Poe. -This is expressed through his poetry, his short stories, his excentric ways, and his incestial marraige. no pg.
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Good Reads (goodreads.com)- Biography
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"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them." ~Edgar A. Poe no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Strange Dreamer or True Genius?(oppapers.com) -Impact on American Poetry
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Through his poetry and writing, he aimed to stir the imagination of man and largely inspired the idea that humans were meant to do more than just live on earth. no pg.
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PAL: Edgar A. Poe(1809-1849) (csustan.edu) - Impact on American Poetry
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Influenced writers of split personality, literary criticism and Influenced writers dealing with the disintegration of personality. no pg.
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PAL: Edgar A. Poe(1809-1849) (csustan.edu) - Major Works
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Four Major Themes: 1. Love - usually of a mourning man for his deceased beloved. 2. Pride - physical and intellectual. 3. Beauty - of a young woman either dying or dead. 4. Death - a source of horror. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe (Poets.org) -Biography
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In 1827 he enlisted in the U.S. army for money. Irony- he entered as a man obsessed with death, found no death in a peace time military and was surrounded by it outside. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe (Poets.org) -Biography -Literary Criticism
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Charles Baudelaire spent fourteen years translating Poe's work into French no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe (Poets.org) -Major Works
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The Raven was published in 1845 was undoubtably his most famous and most discussed Poem. no pg.
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Poetry analysis: The Raven(helium.com) -Biography
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John Allan never legally adopted Poe and always had an unfatherly relationship with his "son," he was a Tobacco Merchant. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Biography
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Poe's mother was an English-born actress named Elizabeth Arnold Poe and his father was David Poe, Jr. who was also an actor from Baltimore. pg. 1
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Biography
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Drinking was in fact to be the bane of his life. To talk well in a large company he needed a slight stimulant, but a glass of sherry might start him on a spree; and, although he rarely succumbed to intoxication, he was often seen in public when he did pg. 1
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Biography
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In 1843 his The Gold-Bug won a prize of $100 from the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, which gave him great publicity. pg. 1
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Biography
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After Virginia died in 1847, he went to Rhode Island and got engaged to Sarah Helen Whitman but never married. pg. 2
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Major Works
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"Poe's work owes much to his own feverish dreams, to which he applied a rare faculty of shaping plausible fabrics out of impalpable materials. With an air of objectivity and spontaneity" pg. 2
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Major Works
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"His keen and sound judgment as an appraiser of contemporary literature, his idealism and musical gift as a poet, his dramatic art as a storyteller, considerably appreciated in his lifetime, secured him a prominent place among universally known men of letters." pg.2
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Major Works/ Biography
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Poe seemed to have to sides: To those whom he loved he showed naught but the purest gentleness and devotion, To those he didn't like he showed the worst criticism and was thought of as lacking principle. - This is portrayed in his madmen in "Tell Tale Heart" and "Black Cat" pg.2
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Biography
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Through his poetry and personality, he seemed (like the man in the Raven) who lived in a displaced dimension, confined in the depths of his perverse and genius mind. - He was living in a "Dream within a Dream" pg. 3
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(Biography.com) -Literary Criticism
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Stephanie Mallarme (With Baudelaire) was one of the early pro active admirerers of Poe's work and was a big figure in the French Symbolist movent. no pg.
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Poetry For Students (eNotes.com) -Major Works
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Annabel Lee (1845) was published on October 7, two days after Poe's death, First in "The Richmond Examiner" then the "New York Tribune." This was Poe's last Poem and enforced the beautiful theme of Young Love. no pg.
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The Poe Decoder(Poedecoder.com) -Major Works
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Fun Fact: Poe considered a Parrot to Quoth and repeat, "Nevermore" then went with the Raven due to its melancholy tone and deathly symbolism. no pg.
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The Poe Decoder(Poedecoder.com) -Major Works
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Poe's extensive vocabulary in the Raven included historically poetic words such as "Seraphim," "Nepenthe," "Balm in Gilead," "Aidenn," and "Plutonian." no pg.
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The Poe Decoder(Poedecoder.com) -Impact/Major Works
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In "The Philosophy of Composition" Poe stated that a Poem should be around 100 lines. The Raven has 108. no pg.
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The Poe Decoder(Poedecoder.com) -Impact/Major Works
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A lot of his poetry (such as The Raven) was written "backwards." You should establish the effect that the poem will have on the reader first and determine how to achieve such an effect, then start writing the plot. no pg.
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The Poe Decoder(Poedecoder.com) -Impact on American Poetry
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"Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones" no pg.
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The Poe Decoder(Poedecoder.com) -Impact on American Poetry
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"The Philosophy of Composition" is the "behind the scenes" of The Raven. In it, he describes the ingenius process by which he wrote it and encourages the reader to use it to benefit their own poetry. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(essortment.com) -Biography
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(essortment.com) -Biography
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While attending U of V, Poe lost hope in his families ability to keep up tuition, so he started gambling with it in hopes to increase it, this did not help and the debt grew. Two big problems in his life = Gambling addiction & Alcohol addiction. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(essortment.com) -Biography
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It is reported that Poe's last words were "Lord help my poor soul." no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography(essortment.com) -Biography
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The Poe Toaster is a mysterious, unidentified man who has delivered half a bottle of cognac and three red roses on Poe's grave on his birthday since 1949 no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography (notablebiographies.com) -Biography
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Poe's brother: William Henry Leonard; was a sailor and amateur poet, the eldest of the Poe siblings. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography (notablebiographies.com) -Biography
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Poe's sister: Rosalie Mackenzie Poe; younger than poe ~The Poe siblings were split up after the death of their parents. no pg.
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Edgar Allan Poe Biography (notablebiographies.com) -Biography
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Maria Poe Clemm: Aunt and Mother-in-law to Edgar, Edgar called her "Muddy" and she called him "Eddy" - loving and much needed mother figure to him in his life. no pg.
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Poetry for Students (eNotes.com) -Major Works
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In "The Philosophy of Composition" Poe describes "The Raven" "as one that reveals the human penchant for "self-torture" as evidenced by the speaker's tendency to weigh himself down with grief" - -this is a quote from the text of the site no pg.
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Poetry for Students (eNotes.com) -Major Works
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In the Raven, "his selection of the word "Nevermore" came after considering his need for a single, easily remembered word that would allow him to vary the meaning of the lines leading up to it." no pg.
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The Philosophy of Composition (Poedecoder.com) -Major Works
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"it became necessary to select a word embodying this sound, and at the same time in the fullest possible keeping with that melancholy which I had pre-determined as the tone of the poem. In such a search it would have been absolutely impossible to overlook the word 'Nevermore.' " ~ Edgar A. Poe (The Philosophy of Composition)
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Edgar Allan Poe (Poedecoder.com) -Biography
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"While the other boys wrote mere mechanical verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry; the boy was a born poet." -teacher of Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe (Poedecoder.com) -Biography
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In 1849 Poe become engaged to Elmira Royster but never married. He also had an affair with Sarah Helen Whitman
