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Was born
In Boston, United States.
Was a writer, poet, critic and American romantic journalist, generally recognized as one of the universal masters of the short story, of which he was one of the first practitioners in his country. -
Was baptized
Edgar was baptized in the Episcopal Church. -
Mention
One of the most exalted critics of his time, the American Edmund Wilson, in his essay "Poe in his country and abroad," refers to the "absolute artistic importance" of this author. -
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University life
Edgar went to the University of Virginia for a year, where he prepared and fell in love with Sarah Elmira Royster, who was his love of youth. -
Army
Unable to survive on his own, Poe enlisted in the army as a private, under the name of 'Edgar A. Perry'. Although he was 18 years old, he signed that he was 22. His first destination was at Fort Independence, in the port of Boston. His salary was five dollars a month. -
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His father passed away
His stepfather died without inheritance, which, economically, he left it forever at his own expense. According to Wilson, Poe would always look hard for literary success as compensation for the loss of social prestige that his rupture with that one had meant. -
The Raven
In January, he published a poem that would make him famous: "The Raven." -
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Success
In the summer he managed to become editor-in-chief of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. It brought to light numerous articles, stories and literary criticism, which contributed to increase the reputation that already enjoyed in the Southern Literary Messenger. The Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque collection, his sixth book, was published in two volumes; the writer made little money with this work, which received criticism of different signs. -
Death
In the city of Baltimore, when he was barely forty years old. The exact cause of his death was never clarified. It was attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart failure, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis and other causes. -
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Career
His literary career began with a book of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems. For economic reasons, he soon turned his efforts to prose, writing stories and literary criticism for some newspapers of the time; It came to acquire some notoriety for its caustic and elegant style. Due to his work, he lived in several cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In Baltimore he married his cousin Virginia Clemm.
