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On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a prosperous tobacco exporter, sent Poe to the best boarding schools and later to the University of Virginia, where Poe excelled academically. After less than one year of school, however, he was forced to leave the university when Allan refused to pay Poe's gambling debts.
Poe returned briefly to Richmond, but his relationship with Allan deteriorated. In 1827, he moved to Boston and enlisted in the United States Army. His first collection of poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems, was published that year. In 1829, he published a second collection entitled Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. Neither volume received significant critical or public attention. Following his Army service, Poe was admitted to the United States Military Academy, but he was again forced to leave for lack of financial support. He then moved into the home of his aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia in Baltimore, Maryland.
Poe began to sell short stories to magazines at around this time, and, in 1835, he became the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, where he moved with his aunt and cousin Virginia. In 1836, he married Virginia, who was thirteen years old at the time. Over the next ten years, Poe would edit a number of literary journals including the Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia and the Broadway Journal in New York City. It was during these years that he established himself as a poet, a short story writer, and an editor. He published some of his best-known stories and poems, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Raven." After Virginia's death from tuberculosis in 1847, Poe's lifelong struggle with depression and alcoholism worsened. He returned briefly to Richmond in 1849 and then set out for an editing job in Philadelphia. For unknown reasons, he stopped in Baltimore. On October 3, 1849, he was found in a state of semi-consciousness. Poe died four days later of "acute congestion of the brain." Evidence by medical practitioners who reopened the case has shown that Poe may have been suffering from rabies.
Poe's work as an editor, a poet, and a critic had a profound impact on American and international literature. His stories mark him as one of the originators of both horror and detective fiction. Many anthologies credit him as the "architect" of the modern short story. He was also one of the first critics to focus primarily on the effect of style and structure in a literary work; as such, he has been seen as a forerunner to the "art for art's sake" movement. French Symbolists such as Mallarmé and Rimbaud claimed him as a literary precursor. Baudelaire spent nearly fourteen years translating Poe into French. Today, Poe is remembered as one of the first American writers to become a major figure in world literature.
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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, United States, on January 19, 1809, and died on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, United States. He was an American writer, critic, journalist and poet. He is recognized as one of the parents of the modern story, as well as the creator of the police genre. In addition, he was a great writer of both science fiction and horror works.
Edgar's father died a year after he was born, and his mother, Elizabeth, would die a year later, in 1811, due to tuberculosis. Since his older brother was already being taken care of by his grandparents, Edgar and his sister Rosalie were adopted by two neighboring families in Richmond: one by the Allan and the other by the Mackencie. John Allan, Edgar's stepfather who would give him his last name, was a merchant of Scottish origin. This was moody, and it is said that, in addition to not supporting Poe's literary destiny, he never legally adopted it. On the contrary, his wife, Frances, put all his faith in Edgar Allan Poe and always filled him with love.
After baptizing Edgar in 1812, the Allan family traveled to Scotland in 1815, where Poe studied at Irvine. Later, the Allan moved to London in 1816, where Poe studied at one of Chelsea's boarding schools, where he learned to write in Latin and speak French. However, the family had traveled because John Allan had business in the old continent. As these did not have a good term, the Allan returned to Richmond in 1820. Here Edgar Allan Poe received education in the best schools.
When he was 16, Edgar fell in love with a neighbor of his, Sarah Elmira Royster. However, after enrolling at the University of Virginia, in Carlottesville, he stopped having contact with her and worsened his relationship with his stepfather, John Allan, due to the debts he had due to gambling. It is said that Poe used the game as a means of survival, because money was not enough. It is also said that in this University he was reputed to be arrogant and appear, on many occasions, to know more than he actually knew. He affirms Cortázar, who translated his work into Spanish, which in this institution Poe would relate for the first time to alcohol. Finally, after a year of staying at the University of Virginia, Poe abandoned his studies in 1827 because of the anarchist and decadent climate that surrounded him.
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