Edgar Allan Poe
Sean Khan
10/26/13
Period 3 English
Edgar Allan Poe After having read some of Edgar Allan Poe’s works, such as “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Fall of The House of Usher”, and “The Raven”, when I hear his name I imagine murderers, madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women coming back from their graves. He was a very versatile writer who was able to write novels, poetry, textbooks, short stories, hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is also widely known as the innovator for modern-day detective stories and the science-fiction genre. Edgar Allan Poe was born to a family of traveling actors in Boston on January 19th, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. When Poe was only three both of his parents died, and he was taken in by a wealthy tobacco merchant named John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan. They lived in Richmond, Virginia while his siblings went to different families. Mr. Allan had dreams for Poe to become a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had his eyes set on becoming a writer in honor of his childhood hero, the British poet Lord Byron. By the age of 13 Poe had enough poetry to write a book. Though his headmaster advised John Allan from letting Poe do this. Which I think was a horrible thing because if they had published the book he could have had many more opportunities. Two years later, Poe left Richmond and went to attend the University of Virginia. He excelled in his classes, but was falling into considerable debt. Allan had sent him to college with a third of the money that he needed, and because of this Poe started gambling in hopes of getting enough money to pay for college. By the end of his first term Poe was so much in debt that he had to use his own furniture to keep him warm. In 1827 Poe had no money, no job skills, and had been shunned by John Allan. Poe then decided to go to Boston and join the army. He did reasonably well in the army by attaining the rank of sergeant major. In 1829 Mrs.
10/26/13
Period 3 English
Edgar Allan Poe After having read some of Edgar Allan Poe’s works, such as “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Fall of The House of Usher”, and “The Raven”, when I hear his name I imagine murderers, madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women coming back from their graves. He was a very versatile writer who was able to write novels, poetry, textbooks, short stories, hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is also widely known as the innovator for modern-day detective stories and the science-fiction genre. Edgar Allan Poe was born to a family of traveling actors in Boston on January 19th, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. When Poe was only three both of his parents died, and he was taken in by a wealthy tobacco merchant named John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan. They lived in Richmond, Virginia while his siblings went to different families. Mr. Allan had dreams for Poe to become a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had his eyes set on becoming a writer in honor of his childhood hero, the British poet Lord Byron. By the age of 13 Poe had enough poetry to write a book. Though his headmaster advised John Allan from letting Poe do this. Which I think was a horrible thing because if they had published the book he could have had many more opportunities. Two years later, Poe left Richmond and went to attend the University of Virginia. He excelled in his classes, but was falling into considerable debt. Allan had sent him to college with a third of the money that he needed, and because of this Poe started gambling in hopes of getting enough money to pay for college. By the end of his first term Poe was so much in debt that he had to use his own furniture to keep him warm. In 1827 Poe had no money, no job skills, and had been shunned by John Allan. Poe then decided to go to Boston and join the army. He did reasonably well in the army by attaining the rank of sergeant major. In 1829 Mrs.