Camilo Perez

EDGAR ALLAN POE BIOGRAPHY

Edgar Allan Poe was the son of Elizabeth and David Poe Poe Arlold, street theater actors, who left him orphaned at two years. He was educated by John Allan, a wealthy Richmond businessman, 1815-1820 and lived with him and his wife in the UK, where he began his education.
The Allan welcomed the child, but never formally adopted but gave him the name “Edgar Allan Poe”
After returning to the United States, Edgar Allan Poe continued to study in private schools and attended the University of Virginia, but in 1827 his gambling and drinking led to her expulsion. He left shortly after the employee position assigned to it by his adoptive father, and traveled to Boston, where her first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems published anonymously.
He then joined the army, where he remained two years. In 1829 he published his second book of poems, Al Aaraf, and obtained, through the influence of his adoptive father, a charge at the Military Academy at West Point, from which a few months later was expelled for dereliction of duty.
Poverty and hunger accompanied him for economic reasons soon directed his efforts to prose , writing short stories and literary criticism for some newspapers of the time ; came to acquire some notoriety for his caustic and elegant style. Because of his work, lived in several cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In Baltimore in 1835, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who had at that time 13 years old. In January 1845, he published a poem that would make him famous, " The Raven " His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. Yet sunk in desolation, the author completed in 1849, the poem "Eureka" With the death of Virginia, Poe's life fell apart.
He died on October 7, 1849. His last words were "God help my poor soul."
WORKS
He wrote over sixty books, along with a series of poems, although not to the genre he dedicated the time he wanted to, because of their precarious economic situation. According to Poe, the highest literary expression was poetry.
List of his works:
 The black cat
 Eureka
 The Fall of the House of Usher
 the bells
 The Oval Portrait
 The Masque of the Red Death
 extraordinary Stories
 the Raven
 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque what
 The Murders in the Rue Morgue
 Ulalume
 Annabel Lee