Edgar Allan Poe

Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, USA.

was only two years old.
  Edgar's mother-Elizabeth Arnold Po, was an Englishwoman, Edgar's father-David Poe, an American of Irish descent. The boy was adopted by a wealthy merchant from Virginia John Allan.

he read, painted, wrote, recited, rode horseback. At school, he studied well, acquired a large body of knowledge in literature, especially English and Latin, in general history, in mathematics, in some branches of natural science, such as astronomy, physics.
The character of the future poet since childhood was uneven, passionate, impetuous. In his behavior noted a lot of strange. From an early age, Edgar wrote poetry, was fond of fantastic plans, liked to make psychological experiments on himself and others.

who graduated in 1826. End Edgar's education was sent to the university in Richmond, then just founded.

Life in wealth ended for Edgar, when he was not even 17 years old. He stayed at the university for a year. In the fall of 1826, there was a gap between John Allan and his adopted son.

in Boston a volume of poems "Al-Aaraaf, Tamerlan and Other Poems."
As prose writer Po wrote in 1833, writing "Manuscript Found in a Bottle."

poetry, stories, critical articles, is engaged in journalism, but you can not survive on royalties - they are so miserly that the young writer is constantly in need.

In 1836, he married his cousin Virginia Klemm, who was then barely fourteen years old. She died quite young in 1847.

Crow and Other Poems" (1845)

The poet himself defines the theme of "Crow" as "the death of a young beautiful woman." Edgar Poe thought the death of a beautiful woman the most poetic story in the world, melancholy - the most poetic mood of a man. The poem can be treated broadly, for example, as a man's struggle with fate.

perhaps interesting, perhaps the most famous novel of the collection and, certainly, very significant from the point of view of its influence on literature. There would not be "Murders on Morgue Street," Sherlock Holmes and Monsieur Lecoq, Hercule Poirot and Pater Brown might not have appeared. The story was first published in the "Journal of Grem" in Philadelphia for April 1841. The manuscript was thrown into a basket for unnecessary papers, from which, for whatever reason, it was extracted by one of the typesetters, named Johnston.

After the war, the building where the manuscript was located burned twice, but each time it found itself in the surviving part of the room. Someone's careless hand again threw it away, and again, by the most incredible chance, she was saved.