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Sacrific Events In Edgar Allan Poe's Life

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On January 19, 1809, an amazing author named Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe. From the beginning of Poe’s life he has had sorrow. All the horrific events that occurred in his life, is what formed him and made him one of the best American poets. Edgar Allan Poe was the preeminent Gothic author, because of his life experience with death, his prestigious education, and his rough upbringing. Primarily, Edgar Allan Poe was the best Gothic writer, because of all his life experiences with death. Poe’s entire life was full of sorrow. Jeffrey Meyers, author of Edgar Allan Poe his life and legacy, states, “traumatized by the deaths of the women who had loved him…Poe was well prepared for a perfectly wretched life” …show more content…

Poe adores his foster mother Francis, which later dies of illness on February 28, 1829, in Richmond. Poe suffers enough agony and despair for two lifetimes by the time he turns twenty. Just when it seems like Poe’s life couldn’t get worse, his brother Henry dies in 1931, of tuberculosis, after Poe relocates to Baltimore. Once more, in 1924, Poe loses another important woman in his life, yet again to terbuculosis, her name was Jane Strannard. Poe called her “the first, purely ideal love of my soul,” notes author James M. Hutchisson in the biography Poe, “[Jane] inspired one of [Poe’s] most beautiful poems” (Hutchisson 13). Stannard the mother of one of Poe’s friends from William Burke's school. Poe attaches to Jane extremely quickly after he meets her. Another, important women in his life, is his wife Virginia Poe. Poe and Virginia married on Monday, May 16th 1836. Poe loved his wife dearly, “my own sweetest Sissy, my darling little wifey”, he called her, confirms author of The Modern Library Of Biography Edgar Allan Poe, Brian Morton (Morton 91). Poe’s wife succumbs to terbuculosis, and dies on January 30, 1847. After Poe’s wife dies, he could not bear with it. He is “[miserable], erratic, and

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