Edgar Allan Poe Timeline

By deontaewoodbridge

  • edgar allan poe is born

    Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

  • Poe writes his 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."

  • poe marries his thirteen year old cousin

    The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27.There relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife in that they may have never consummated their marriage

  • poe published the raven

    poe published the raven
    Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven was published in the New York's The Evening ... the poem was reprinted in many publications around the country ...