Edgar Allan Poe presentation

Edgar Allan Poe

Life

who was Wedgar Allan poe

He was born in Boston on 19 january 1809, he was the second son of the British actress ElizabethArnold and the american actor David Poee Jr.

His father abandoned the family when Edgar was two years old, and his mother died soon after. After this Edgar went to live with the Allans, but Mr Allan never officially adopted Edgar. The Allans, together with Edgar, went to live in England for five years, then they returned to the United States.

He didn't succeed with his studies, in fact he was expelled from the Richmond Academy and went to work as a journalist

Life

who was Edgar Allan Poe

He married his cousin Virginia Clemm who was very ill and she died ten years later.

Unable to support himself, Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private on 27 May 1827. The same year he pubblished his first book a 40 page collection of poetry and poems named Tamerlane and Other Poems.

He continued to be successful as an editor and to write many great story and poems, but his financial problems continued until his death in 1849.

Writher career

He became famous and important in France because a poet, Charles Baudelaire, translated all his great stories. Edgar is also famous for having invented the first detective stories. Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, the hero of these stories, is the literary ancestor of Sherlock Holmes.

style of writing

Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and macabre style of writing has given him the distinction of one of the greatest horror writers of all time. He is a very important poet and also the inventor of short fiction, the one who therized the structure of the short story and the effetcs it has to give to the reader.

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