The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 4

by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) changed into an American creator, editor, and literary critic. Poe is high-quality recognized for his poetry and brief stories, in particular his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is broadly appeared as a important determine of Romanticism within the United States and American literature as a whole, and he became one of the united states's earliest practitioners of the quick tale. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging style of science fiction. He changed into the first famous American author to attempt to earn a living via writing alone, ensuing in a financially difficult lifestyles and profession.Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the arena, as well as in specialised fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear at some point of famous subculture in literature, tune, movies, and television. A number of his houses are committed museums these days. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for outstanding paintings inside the mystery genre

164 pages, Paperback

Published January 11, 2020

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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