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This portion of my site is dedicated to the
Poems and Tales
of a man some refer to simply as

"POE"


Picture from
E.A. Poe Society of Baltimore.


The following are exerpts from Poets.Org. Please see link below.

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three. John Allan, a prosperous tobacco exporter, and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. Poe excelled academically at the University of Virginia. Poe was forced to leave the University when Allan refused to pay his gambling debts.

In 1827 his first collection of poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems, were published.

Returning briefly to Richmond in 1849 he then set out for an editing job in Philadelphia. For unknown reasons, he stopped in Baltimore. On October 3, 1849, he was found in a state of semi-consciousness. Poe died four days later of "acute congestion of the brain."

Today, Poe is remembered as one of the first American writers to become a major figure in world literature.

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POEMS TALES


For more information on Edgar Allan Poe visit these sites.

Poets.Org

Poe Society