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Edgar Allan Poe

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  • Life of Edgar Allan Poe

    Poe was orphened and adopted.
    He was found in a gutter
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    Edgar Allan Poe

  • England

    England
    The Allan family sails to London, where Edgar enrolls in school.(Shmoop)

  • Back to Usa

    Back to Usa
    Five years after leaving America for England, the Allans return to Richmond, Virginia. (Shmoop)

  • First Poem

    First Poem
    A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest." (Shmoop)

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    Poe, who is 27 years old,marries his thirteen-year-old cousin

  • First Novel

    First Novel
    Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published.

  • Death of Wife

    Death of Wife
    Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx. Poe has been so despondent during the final months of her illness that friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism. (Shmoop)

  • Death

    Death
    After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.