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Edgar Allen Poe is born
Edgar Allen Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is know for the inventer of fiction. Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. -
Poe's Sister is Born
Rosalie was the younger sister of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. she was born long enough after the disappearance of her mother.when Rosalie was a child, a wealthy resident of Richmond, VA, Joseph Gallego, died and left a will bequeathing Rosalie the then enormous sum of 2,000 dollars for her maintenance. After her mother's death, Rosalie was given a home by the Mackenzies, a prominent Richmond family. -
Poe's parents Die
Edgar's father, was trained to be a lawyer, but at a young age defied his family's wishes and became an actor instead.A newspaper story from a much later era claimed he died in Norfolk, Virginia,but not verified to be true. His wife Eliza, was described as "left alone, the only support of herself and several small children. About a month after Eliza got very ill, she died, assumed to be either tuberculosis or pneumonia, leaving three young children as penniless orphans. -
Poe writes his first poem
Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. -
Poe enlist in the U.S Army and shortly after his first book is published.
Edgar went to Boston and joined the U.S. Army in 1827. He was 18. He did reasonably well in the Army and attained the rank of sergeant major. In 1829, Mrs. Allan died and John Allan tried to be friendly towards Edgar and signed Edgar's application to West Point.While waiting to enter West Point, Edgar lived with his grandmother and his aunt, Mrs. Clemm. Also living there was his brother, Henry, and young cousin. -
Poe's older brother dies
He was a sailor, amateur poet and the older brother of Edgar Allan Poe and Rosalie Poe.Before the age of 20, Henry traveled around the globe by sea before returning to Baltimore and becoming a published poet and author. One of his works, "The Pirate", was a fictionalized account of his brother's first relationship with Sarah Elmira Royster in Richmond. Henry died of tuberculosis in 1831 at the age of twenty-four -
Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27.Though their marriage was loving, some biographers suggest they viewed one another more like a brother and sister. A few years after their wedding, Poe was involved in a substantial scandal involving Frances Sargent Osgood and Elizabeth F. Ellet. Rumors about amorous improprieties on her husband's part affected Virginia Poe so much that on her deathbed she claimed that Ellet had murdered her. -
Poe writes his first novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pum.
The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy.The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify. Poe, who intended to present a realistic story, was inspired by several real-life accounts of sea voyages. -
Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes.
It was published by the Philadelphia firm Lea & Blanchard and released in two volumes. Poe had sought Washington Irving to endorse the book, writing to him, "If I could be permitted to add even a word or two from yourself... my fortune would be made".Poe wrote the now-famous quote defending himself from the criticism that his tales were part of "Germanism". He wrote, "If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany but of the soul". -
Poe publishes the poem, The Raven
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. The poem makes use of a number of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. -
Poe's wife virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in Bronx.
Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship. Though their marriage was loving, some biographers suggest they viewed one another more like a brother and sister. In January 1842 she contracted tuberculosis, growing worse for five years until she died of the disease at the age of 24 in the family's cottage, -
Edgar Allen Poe dies.
The death of Edgar Allan Poe on October 7, 1849, has remained mysterious: the circumstances leading up to it are uncertain and the cause of death is disputed. On October 3, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland,He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died at 5 a.m. on Sunday, October 7. Poe was never coherent enough to explain how he came to be in this condition.
