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Edgar Allen Poe For Biography

Samantha Miller
English IV - Morrin
Period 4
April 8, 2005
Edgar Allen Poe for Biography
Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Around this time was the Louisiana Purchase and the ending of importation of slaves. His parents were traveling actors but at a very early age his father deserted his family and his mother died in 1811. So Poe became a ward of John Allen who was a wealthy Richmond merchant. The Allan family lived in the United Kingdom from 1815 to 1820 before returning to Richmond. Poe and Allen's relationship suffered tremendously making Poe having to make some hard decisions for his future.
After they returned to Richmond, Poe attended the University of Virginia in 1926. Soon after he acquired gambling debts that John Allen refused to pay leading Poe to withdraw from the University. When in 1927 he was enlisted into the Military his first book was published. The title was "Tamerlane and Other Poems". Poe published his second......


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