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He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States -
In this year, David Poe, his father abandoned him and his mother passed away -
During this time he lived with John Allan and his wife in the UK, where he began his education.
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Because of his addiction to drinking and his hobby with the game he was expelled -
That same year, he anonymously published his first book, Tamerlán and Other Poems.
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he enlisted in the army and stayed there for more or less two years
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his second book of poems appeared, Al Aaraaf -
he published his third book, Poems -
He married his very young cousin Virginia Clemm, who was then fourteen years old. -
He published in Philadelphia Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque -
Then he had an extraordinary success with The Gold Bug -
The book that took him to the top of his literary reputation was The Raven and Other Poems
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His wife died -
After the death of his wife his alcoholism increased and he also died
