His parents were theater actors, who worked throughout the world. Died when he was still a child. Edgar Allan Poe was educated by John Allan, a wealthy businessman Richmond, and from 1815 to 1820 he lived with Edgar and his wife in the UK, where he began his education.
After returning to the United States Edgar Allan Poe continued to study at private schools and attended the University of Virginia, but in 1827 his gambling and drinking led to his expulsion. He left shortly thereafter as an employee who had assigned his adoptive father, and traveled to Boston where anonymously published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems.
After returning to the United States Edgar Allan Poe continued to study at private schools and attended the University of Virginia, but in 1827 his gambling and drinking led to his expulsion. He left shortly thereafter as an employee who had assigned his adoptive father, and traveled to Boston where anonymously published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems.
then He enlisted in the army, where he remained two years. In 1829 he published his second book of poems, Al A'raf , and obtained, influenced by his adoptive father, a charge Military Academy West Point , which a few months he was expelled for neglect the compliance of duty. In 1832, after the publication of third book, Poems, visited Baltimore, where he married his cousin Virginia fledgling Clem, who was fourteen years old.
His work as an incisive literary critic and often outrageous earned him some notoriety, and his original findings about the story and the nature of poetry could not fail to gain influence over time. The long illness of his wife, their marriage became a bitter experience, when she died in 1847, he increased his tendency to alcoholism and drug abuse, according to the testimony of his contemporaries. Both were, in all probability , the cause of his death.
His work as an incisive literary critic and often outrageous earned him some notoriety, and his original findings about the story and the nature of poetry could not fail to gain influence over time. The long illness of his wife, their marriage became a bitter experience, when she died in 1847, he increased his tendency to alcoholism and drug abuse, according to the testimony of his contemporaries. Both were, in all probability , the cause of his death.
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