Edgar Allan Poe s Life And The Way - 1453 Words

The literary person that I choose to write about is Edgar Allan Poe. I choose Edgar Allan Poe because he is widely acknowledgeable as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator when it comes to the science fiction category. The reason I picked Poe is because I like the way he writes and how it’s kind of spooky and mysterious his poems and short stories The time period Edgar Allan Poe lived in affected his life and the way he wrote literature. When Poe first started out he was living as America’s first great literary critic. He was also a theoretician. Poe’s stories has caught the attention of the public but so has he himself. They say that â€Å"he is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadow of moonlit†¦show more content†¦Mr. Allan who was the man that toke Poe in wanted him to become a business man but Poe had dreams of being a writer and writing stories of his childhood. By the age of thirteen Poe had enough poetry to publish his first book. In 1826 Poe left Richmond and went to the University of Virginia. He did amazing In all his classes and got pretty much straight A’s but Mr. Allan only gave Poe about one third the money he needed and soon after eventually he was so broke he burned his furniture to stay warm. Humiliated by poverty and mad at Allan, Poe went to his Fiancà ©s house Elmira Royster but when he got there he found out that she had gotten engaged in Poeâ⠂¬â„¢s absence and Poe was then Heartbroken. Poe went back to the Allan mansion and soon after he stormed out of the house to become a great poet. The first book that was published was called Tamerlane when he was eighteen years old. Soon after Mr. Allan’s wife was dying and she wanted to see Poe before she died but by the time Poe got there she was already buried. Mr. Allan and Poe reconciled and Allan helped Poe get an appointment in the United States academy at west point. Then Mr. Allan got remarried without telling Poe anything and Poe got mad and got thrown out of the academy and published yet another book. When Poe left the academy he went to Baltimore to be with family because he had no place to go. His own cousin robbed him in the middle of the night and