Biography of Edgar Allan Poe
“There are two bodies — the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis.” Edgar Allan Poe was a poet who grew up with theater in his blood and who became known for his style of literature. First I will inform you of his birth along with his parents, then I will tell you about his childhood and education, after that I will follow up on his mysterious death.
Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in a cheap rooming house near the Boston Common.
Meltzer, the author of one of Poe’s Biography, states that “Eliza [his mother] married a young Baltimore law student, David Poe Jr.”
Both of his parents were actors, his mother doing it all her life, and his father enjoying playing in amateur productions.
Melzter writes that “He enjoyed playing amateur productions, saw Eliza on stage, fell in love, and quit the law to join her theater company”
While Edgar was still a baby, his father deserted his wife and children.
Towards the end of 1811, David had died--probably of tuberculosis, or TB--in Norfork Virginia
Meltzer writes that “Eliza Poe, only twenty-four, died that same december.”
“Already quite sick of what was then called consumption, and was later recognized as tuberculosis, a disease commonly of the lungs.
Edgar was then split from his two siblings, his sister older Rosalie and his older brother Henry, and taken to the home of John and Frances “Fanny” Allan.
Melzter writes that Edgar was brought to her “probably on her initiative, for she herself had been an orphan, and in a childless marriage welcomed Edgar warmly”
Poes foster parents did not receive a proper education.
John (who grew up with his uncle) resented him for refusing to give him an academic education.
But he did read widely in literature and placed musical instruments in his home.
He was eager for acceptance into Richmond’s upper class, (Made up of merchants, planters, and
Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in a cheap rooming house near the Boston Common.
Meltzer, the author of one of Poe’s Biography, states that “Eliza [his mother] married a young Baltimore law student, David Poe Jr.”
Both of his parents were actors, his mother doing it all her life, and his father enjoying playing in amateur productions.
Melzter writes that “He enjoyed playing amateur productions, saw Eliza on stage, fell in love, and quit the law to join her theater company”
While Edgar was still a baby, his father deserted his wife and children.
Towards the end of 1811, David had died--probably of tuberculosis, or TB--in Norfork Virginia
Meltzer writes that “Eliza Poe, only twenty-four, died that same december.”
“Already quite sick of what was then called consumption, and was later recognized as tuberculosis, a disease commonly of the lungs.
Edgar was then split from his two siblings, his sister older Rosalie and his older brother Henry, and taken to the home of John and Frances “Fanny” Allan.
Melzter writes that Edgar was brought to her “probably on her initiative, for she herself had been an orphan, and in a childless marriage welcomed Edgar warmly”
Poes foster parents did not receive a proper education.
John (who grew up with his uncle) resented him for refusing to give him an academic education.
But he did read widely in literature and placed musical instruments in his home.
He was eager for acceptance into Richmond’s upper class, (Made up of merchants, planters, and