Born In Boston In 1809, Edgar Poe Was Destined To Lead A Rather Somber And Brief

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Term Paper Title	Born In Boston In 1809, Edgar Poe Was Destined To Lead A Rather Somber And Brief
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Born in Boston in 1809, Edgar Poe was destined to lead a rather somber and brief life, most of it
a struggle against poverty. His mother died when Edgar was only two, his father already long
disappeared. He was raised as a foster child in Virginia by Frances Allen and her husband John, a
Richmond tobacco merchant.

Poe later lived in Baltimore with his aunt, Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia, whom he
eventually married. The trio formed a household which moved to New York and then to
Philadelphia, where they lived for about six years -- apparently the happiest, most productive
years of his life. Of Poe's several Philadelphia homes, only this one survives.

In 1844 they moved to New York, where Poe briefly owned his own journal. Tuberculosis took
Virginia's life in 1847, drawing it from her slowly after the fashion of this cruel affliction. Poe's
subsequent decline was as tragic as it was rapid. In 1849 Edgar Allen Poe died in delirium of
"acute congestion of the brain."

There is a very bright side to Poe's life, however, that the rest of us have enjoyed, if not the man
himself. His prose and poetry have forever changed the course of storytelling, setting standards
that many authors have striven to meet and still do. Poe is widely recognized as the inventor of
the modern mystery with his "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (written in Philadelphia). Here
detective Cesar A. Dupin solved crimes through a process of rational thinking Poe called
ratiocination. Dupin was the predecessor of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha
Christie's Hercule Poirot.

Edgar Allen Poe is probably most famous for his macabre tales such as "The Raven", "The
Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" (the latter two written in Philadelphia,
along with other famous stories and poems).

A Dream Within a Dream

                           Take this kiss upon the brow!
                           And, in parting from you now,
                             Thus much let me avow -
                           You are not wrong, who deem
                          That my days have been a dream;
                            Yet if hope has flown away
                              In a night, or in a day,
                              In a vision, or in none,
                            Is it therefore the less gone?
                              All that we see or seem
                           Is but a dream within a dream.

                               I stand amid the r...

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