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Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
Title: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1193 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, known as a poet and critic but most
famous as the “master of the short-story form” ( Edgar Allan Poe), especially
tales of the “mysterious and macabre” ( Edgar Allan Poe). The literary merits
of Poe’s writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remained
popular and many major American and European writers have “professed their
artistic debt to him” ( Edgar Allan Poe).
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…showed last 75 words of 1193 total…childhood friends and an unromantic friendship with young poet, Susan Archer
Talley (Woodberry 96).
“Poe had some forebodings of death when he left Richmond for Baltimore late in
September” (Woodberry105). There, after toasting a lady at her birthday party,
he began to drink heavily. “The indulgence proved fatal, for Poe he had a weak
heart” (Woodberry 106). “Poe died October, 7 1849” (Untermeyer 556) of “unknown
causes” (Edgar Allan Poe). He is buried in Westminster Presbyterian churchyard
in Baltimore (Woodberry 106).
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