![]() He published his first work, Tamerlane and Other Poems, while serving as an artilleryman at Fort Independence, Boston, Massachusetts. After squandering his college tuition money gambling, he enlisted in the US Army at the age of 18. After the death of his parents, he was taken in by a foster family and spent some of his childhood abroad, spending a couple of years in a boarding school in England before returning to America at the age of 11. (which should tell you volumes about his own love life, not to mention the death of his mother and his adoptive mother at a young age). He also believed that the perfect subject for poetry is the death of a beautiful young woman note To be precise, he thought it perfect because it married the "most poetical subject"- Beauty- with the "most poetical emotion"- Melancholy. ![]() Poe believed that all stories should be short enough to be read in one sitting. ![]() ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, speech at the Authors' Club in London (March 1, 1909)Įdgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe Janu– October 7, 1849) was an American writer, the inventor of the modern horror story and the modern detective story, as well as an early influence on the science fiction genre. ![]()
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