Summary of the Biography of Edgar Allan Poe

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Poe was born(p) in capital of Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. That makes him Capricorn, on the cusp of Aquarius. When Poe was 6, he went to school in England for 5 years. He learned Latin and French, as well as mathematics and history. He later returned to school in America and continued his studies. Edgar Allan went to the University of Virginia in 1826. He was 17. Edgar Allan had no money, no job skills, 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-at-law major.In 1831, Edgar Allan Poe went to freshly York City where he had more or less of his poetry print. He submitted stories to a good turn of magazines and they were all rejected. Poe had no friends, no job, and was in financial trouble. In 1835, Edgar finally got a job as an editor of a newspaper because of a contest he won with his story, The Manuscript Found in a Bottle. Edgar missed Mrs. Clemm and Virginia and brought them to capital of Virginia to live with him. In 1836, Edgar married his cousin, Virginia. He was 27 and she was 13.As the editor for the Southern literary Messenger, Poe successfully managed the paper and increased its circulation from five cytosine to 3500 copies. Despite this, Poe left the paper in early 1836, complaining of the poor salary. In 1837, Edgar went to New York. He wrote The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym alone he could not find both financial success. He moved to Philadelphia in 1838 where he wrote Ligeia and The Haunted Palace. His stolon volume of short stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in 1839. Poe received the copyright and 20 copies of the book, only when no money. Poe found himself without a regular job once again.He time-tested to start a magazine called The way and failed. He won a hundred dollars for his story, The princely Bug and sold a few other stories to magazines but he b arly had enough mone y to fight sand his family. Often, Mrs. Clemm had to contribute financially. In 1844, Poe moved back to New York. Even though The Gold Bug had a circulation of around 300,000 copies, he could barely make a living. He and his family moved to a small bungalow near what is now East 192nd Street. Virginias health was fading away and Edgar was deeply infelicitous by it. Virginia died in 1847, 10 years after Edgars birthday.After losing his wife, Poe collapsed from stress but piecemeal returned to health later that year. On family 27, Poe left Richmond for New York. He went to Philadelphia and stayed with a friend named James P. Moss. On September 30, he meant to go to New York but supposedly took the wrong contract to Baltimore. On October 3, Poe was found at Gunners Hall, a public house at 44 East Lombard Street, and was taken to the hospital. He lapsed in and out of consciousness but was neer able to explain merely what happened to him. Edgar Allan Poe died in the hospital on Sunday, October 7, 1849.Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe It ordain be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. from The Murders in the Rue morgue It is more than probable that I am not understood but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner thinkable to convey to the mind of the merely familiar reader, an adequate idea of that nervous ecstasy of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to blab out technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of sluice the most ordinary objects of the universe. from Berenice