Edgar+Allen+Poe

Edgar Allan Poe! (Erika Bennett) January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 I have done so many works of art and many people have doubt that i would make it in America. My most famous would have to be "The Raven." I married my 13 year-old cousin. I have been to college but never finished. I want others to learn what i have learned thought my life. I want people to express their feelings thou anything they need. They did not have many awards back when i lived. 614-820-0188 Address: 287 Nurton drive. (mailing) edgarallanpoe@gmail.com Edgar Allan went to the University of Virginia in 1826, never finished. Attended boarding school in London finished school in Richmond, VA Joined the U.S. Army in 1827 sergeant major. 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.” Credited with inventing the detective genre of fiction. He published a large number of articles, stories, and reviews. During his lifetime, Poe was mostly recognized as a literary critic. The sensation Poe created with his cryptography stunt played a major role in popularizing cryptograms in newspapers and magazines. In 1833 Poe won a $50 prize for "MS. Found in a Bottle" awarded by the Baltimore //Saturday Visiter (sic)//. In 1845, Poe won a $100 award for "The Gold Bug" awarded by the Dollar Newspaper, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S. Army (1827-1831) Editor, //Southern Literary Messenger// (1835-1837) Editor, //Burton's Gentleman's Magazine// (1839-1840) Editor, //Graham's Magazine// (1841-1842) Editor, //New York Evening Mirror// (1844-1845) Owner/Editor, //Broadway Journal// (1845-1846) Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827) Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829) Lenore (1843) The raven and other poems (1845) Ulalume (1847) Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) Annabel Lee (1849) Berenice (1835) The fall of the house of Usher(1839) Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1939) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) The Masque of the Red Death (1842) The Pit and the Pendulum (1842) The Black Cat (1843) The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) The Purloined Letter (1845) The Cask of Amontillado (1846) The Oval Portrait (1850) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1850) media type="youtube" key="sXU3RfB7308" height="315" width="420"[|Edgar's short stories and poems] Works Cited Ehrlich, Heyward. "Edgar Allan Poe." //Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More//. Academy of American Poets, 1997. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. . Giordano, Robert. "Stort Stories." //Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Tales, and Poems//. Design 215, 2011. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. . "Poe's Life." //Edgar Allan Poe Museum : Poe's Life, Legacy, and Works : Richmond, Virginia//. 2010. Web. 09 Nov. 2011. .
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