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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. He is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, and his poetry. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. Though they never formally adopted him, Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Poe repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of Poe's secondary education. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with John Allan. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. He married Virginia Clemm in 1836. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. He began planning for a large-scale magazine, The Stylus, though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

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Occupation writer,soundtrack,miscellaneous
Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 19 January 1809
Birthday 19 January
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death October 7, 1849
Died Place Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Edgar Allan Poe Height, Weight & Measurements

At 40 years old, Edgar Allan Poe height is 5' 8" (1.73 m) .

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Who Is Edgar Allan Poe's Wife?

His wife is Virginia Eliza Clemm (m. 1836-1847)

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Parents David Poe Jr. Elizabeth Arnold
Wife Virginia Eliza Clemm (m. 1836-1847)
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2019

In a strange turn of events, his first post-mortem biography was written and told by his greatest literary enemy, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, who often invented details of Poe's life in order to libel him (as, for example, his supposed alcoholism--Poe had congenital intolerance to it and he was unable to drink alcohol), caused among other reasons by their rivalry for the love of writer Frances Sargent Osgood. It turned into one of the most important cases of defamation in the entire 19th century.

2012

The Raven (2012) is loosely inspired in his last days.

1999

Late descendant Edgar Allan Poe IV played his ancestor in Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace (1999), Monkeybone (2001) and Brooke Beckman: Haunted MD (2010).

1996

In the September 1996 edition of the "Maryland Medical Journal," Dr. R. Michael Benitez (who ran the coronary care unit at the Baltimore VA Medical Center and taught at the University of Maryland Medical Center) published his conclusion that Poe died of rabies contracted via an animal bite, probably from a pet cat. Poe's symptoms and death indicate he suffered from rabies, a viral encephalitis that attacks the brain and central nervous system. Rabies, which is transmitted from the saliva of an infected animal to the open wound of a new host, is characterized by hydrophobia (fear of water), wide fluctuations in pulse, perspiration, delirium, intense fever, confusion and coma. A patient typically seems to recover, then suffers a relapse. The clinical course of rabies is four days, after which the patient dies without treatment. These were Poe's symptoms, and his case lasted four days before he died. According to Benitez, only twice in recorded history has anyone survived rabies, and "they weren't quite the same people they were before", as rabies causes irrevocable brain damage. Poe kept cats, and although there is no record of his ever having been bitten, Benitez noted that only 27% of recent rabies victims ever remembered the bite. The incubation period can last up to a year. In Poe's time there was no treatment for rabies, which was invariably fatal. For Poe it was almost a case of life (and death) imitating art, an end as inevitable and as gruesome as the sufferings of his tortured characters.

1985

In Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), the teenage Holmes and Watson were fans of Poe's writing.

1960

His most famous stories were produced in a series of successful films by Hollywood during the 1960s.

1949

Pictured on a 3¢ US postage stamp in the Famous Americans/Poets series, issued 7 October 1949.

1929

By that time he published "Al Aaraf" (1929) and "Poems by Edgar A.

1849

There is some mystery surrounding the actual conditions of his death. In October 1849 he was found lying in a gutter, drunk, barely conscious and wearing someone else's clothing. He died shortly thereafter of apparent alcohol poisoning. However, some historians believe that there may have been other reasons for his untimely demise. The most common theory is that he was a victim of a political kidnapping and made to vote in a local mayoral election while dressed up in different clothes and under the influence of massive amounts of alcohol, so that he would not remember anything. Others believe that he may have had a massive brain tumor that led to a stroke; this theory is aided somewhat by the fact that Poe had a rather large, oddly-shaped head.

1845

He did produce, however, a constant flow of highly musical poems, of which "The Raven" (1845) and "The Bells" (1849) are the finest examples.

1842

Poe met Charles Dickens during the Englishman's 1842 tour of America. On March 6, 1842, Poe and Dickens arranged to meet while he was in Philadelphia. Dickens had been greatly impressed by Poe's ability to guess the ending of his 1841 serialized novel "Barnaby Rudge". In the "Saturday Evening Post" edition of May 1841, Poe had reviewed the work, which was being published serially in a magazine a chapter at a time. At the meeting, Dickens agreed to consider writing for the magazine that Poe edited, "Graham's", and to try to find an English publisher for Poe's "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque". Nothing of substance came from either promise. Curiously, Dickens owned a pet raven named Grip, and he had introduced the loquacious raven into "Barnaby Rudge" as a character. In his May 1841 review, Poe commented on the use of the talking raven, saying the bird should have loomed larger in the plot. Literary experts surmise that the talking raven of "Barnaby Rudge" inspired Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven", published in 1845. After Grip died in 1841, Dickens had the bird mounted. It now resides at the Free Library on Logan Circle in Philadelphia, PA.

1841

His works: "The Murder in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is probably the first detective story ever published.

1838

Among his masterful short stories are "Ligeia" (1838), "The Fall of the House of Usher"(1839) and "The Masque of the Red Death". Following his own theory of creating "a certain unique or single effect", Poe invented the genre of the detective story.

1831

Poe" (1831), with the funds contributed by his fellow cadets. His early poetry, though written in the manner of Lord Byron, already shows the musical effects of his verses. Poe moved in with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her teenage daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm, whom he married before she was 14 years old. He earned respect as a critic and writer. In his essays "The Poetic Principle" and "The Philosophy of Composition," Poe formulated important literary theories. But his career suffered from his compulsive behavior and from alcoholism.

1829

In 1829, he became a West Point cadet, but was dismissed after 6 months for disobedience.

1827

He had no way out and enlisted in the army in May of 1827.

At the same time Poe published his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems" (1827).

1825

Member of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville (established in 1825 by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct Patrick Henry Society). Fellow members include US President Woodrow Wilson, US President James Madison (Honorary), Marquis De Lafayette (Honorary), William Faulkner (Honorary) and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Honorary).

1811

Both parents died in 1811, and Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old. He was adopted by John Allan, a tobacco merchant in Richmond, Virginia, and was sent to a boarding school in London, England. He later attended the University of Virginia for one year, but dropped out and ran up massive gambling debts after spending all of his tuition money. John Allan broke off Poe's engagement to his fiancée Sarah Royster. Poe was heartbroken, traumatized, and broke.

1809

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, named David Poe Jr. , and his mother, named Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, were touring actors.