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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1847)

LINKS

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=131

This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on Edgar Allan Poe including a biography, online primary texts, criticism, bibliographic information, and additional links.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/poesites.html

This link connects you to "A Poe Webliography: Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet." It contains a list of Internet links to discussions of and resources on Poe.

http://www.eapoe.org/

This link connects you to The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. Here you will find Poe's writings, biographical materials, bibliographies, criticism, and other resources.

BIOGRAPHY

Poe's natural parents, the traveling actors David and Elizabeth Poe, died before Edgar Allan Poe reached the age of three. His foster parents, John and Frances Allan, traveled with him to England where between the age of six and eleven Poe studied in a boarding school. In 1826, Poe attended the University of Virginia but, owing to gambling debts, he dropped out of college and traveled to Boston where he published his first book of verse Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) followed by a brief appointment to West Point. Poe's second book of poems Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems appeared in 1829 before the publication of Poems (1831) that included such famous works as "To Helen" and "Israfel." In 1832 Poe was living in Baltimore with his aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter, Virginia. That year, he published five stories followed in 1833 by the award of a prize from the Baltimore Saturday Visitor for "Ms. Found in a Bottle." Two years later, Poe moved to Richmond, Virginia where he assumed the position of editor of the Southern Literary Messenger and married Virginia Clemm in 1836. The following year, Poe moved his family to New York where he published The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. During the next decade from his time in Philadelphia from 1838 through 1844 and then in New York from 1844 through 1849, Poe sought to consolidate his reputation as a journalist, poet, and fiction writer, publishing such masterpieces as "Ligeia" (1838), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Raven" (1845) and "The Bells" (1849). Two years after the death of Virginia from tuberculosis in 1847, Poe returned to Richmond for a lecture tour, but traveling north en route to New York, Poe died in Baltimore of "acute congestion of the brain."

SECONDARY SOURCES

Bloom, Harold, Ed. Edgar Allan Poe. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.

Budd, Louis J. and Edwin H. Cady. On Poe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Hayes, Kevin J. Poe and the Printed Word. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Kennedy, J. Gerald and Liliane Weissberg, Eds. Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Peeples, Scott. Edgar Allan Poe Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998.

Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2001.

Vines, Lois, Ed. Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

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