Edgar Allan Poe – biography

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is an American romantic writer, essayist, prose writer, editor and literary critic. Zodiac sign - Capricorn. 

A classic of the short story, kingessays (mostly tragic, “scary”, “double”, fantastic or humorous; collection of “Grotesques and arabesques”, 1840). Founder of detective literature ("Murder on Morgue Street", 1841; "Golden Beetle", 1843). Some of his works contributed to the formation and development of science fiction, and such features of his work as irrationality, mysticism, doom, anomalousness of the depicted states, anticipated the literature of decadence.

Genres: Detective, Fiction, Satire, Mystery, Horror Literature. Directions: romanticism, symbolism, Gothic literature.

 

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.

 

Legend of Edgar Allan Poe

Biography According to the law, it was not proved that it itself was destroyed in order to become a grand reality and imagination. According to the story of this news, after he was introduced by a descendant of the court, in Byron, Greece, to devote himself to the struggle for liberation and to experience many trials, including staying in St. Petersburg, where he forgot his fate.

 

Reality

In fact, Poe was the son of wandering actors, orphaned early, brought up in the family of a wealthy merchant with whom he had a very tense relationship, and did not receive education, forced to leave the university as a result of scandalous stories and card debts. Having learned poverty and the need to earn a living as a journalist, by the way, by the way, there was no equal in America at that time, Edgar Allan Poe led the existence of a literary day laborer, and he created on the pages of autobiographical works the image of a lonely genius, a worldly artist and a dandy in his everyday behavior belongs to art, but does not characterize a real person. But having said about himself: “My life is a whim — an impulse — a passion — a thirst for loneliness — contempt for the present, inflamed with passion for the expectation of the future”, Poe expressed the fundamental features of his personality that made his sharp conflict inevitable with a common-sense society whose mercantile interests and utilitarian moral concepts were constantly ridiculed by him.

 

In the fall of 1835, Poe married his minor cousin Virginia, who became the addressee of his most soulful lyric poems. The death of his wife twelve years later was the last and irreparable catastrophe of Edgar's life, filled with exhausting journal work, which did not help to get out of the fiercely plaguing pursuits that led to a mental breakdown and early death. Poe's death caused almost undisguised glee from the writer’s enemies, who, forty years later, were rebuffed by his French admirer, the leader of symbolism, Stefan Mallarmé, who scornfully wrote about the insignificants who dare to reproach Poe for the fact that “he poisoned the philosopher in alcohol”.

 

The best editions of the works of Edgar Allan Poe:

Griswold (New York, 1856), Ingram (Edinburgh, 1875), Stoddard (1884), illustrated. Stedman and Woodberry (1895), See S. Whiteman, "E. Poe a. His crities" (New York, 1860); biographies of W. T. Gille (6th ed., 1880), Didier (1877), Rico (1876), Stedman (1880), Woodberry (1885). (Z. V.)

On August 1, 1914, the first film adaptation of Edgar Alan Poe’s novel “Murder on Morgue Street,” which was a dumb short film, took place.

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was buried at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, which is now part of the University of Maryland Law College.