The great American writer Edgar Allan Poe made an incredibly huge contribution to the development of literature. Thanks to him, whole new genres were born, despite the fact that Poe mostly worked in the genre of romanticism. However, the recognizable “corporate identity” of this writer ensured him a great success. His books are read in various countries, and many of them have received the status of religious works.
Parents of the future writer were actors. Shortly after the birth of Edgar On his father left the family, and after another year his mother died. As a result, he was adopted by a childless Allan family. At school, he successfully studied French and Greek, as well as Latin. Even then, Edgar read Caesar, Ovid and Virgil in the original. While studying at the university, the future writer began to drink and play cards, having accumulated a lot of debts. When his stepfather refused to pay his stepson’s card debt, Edgar Allan Poe had to leave the university.
Edgar Poe’s first literary experiences were poems. Probably many of them he wrote before the university, but it is not known for certain. Because of gambling, he finally fell out with his stepfather, was expelled from home and began to travel in search of work. The first publication of Edgar Allan Poe was a collection of poems entitled “” Tamerlane “and other poems.” The book consisted of 40 pages. A total of 50 copies were printed. Jules Verne and Howard Lovecraft called Edgar Allan Poe the ancestor of several new literary genres. Throughout his life, the writer tried to ensure his existence only by literary activity. Because of this, he always had problems with money. Alcohol Poe accompanied Edgar Allan Poe throughout his adult life.
At the age of 27, he married his cousin, who at the time was 13 years and 10 months old. Most of the art of Po – stories. There were more poems, as well as several plays and short stories. The novel, he wrote only one – “The Tale of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym.” 80 years before the emergence of the theory of the formation of the Universe as a result of the Big Bang, Edgar Allan Poe suggested the same thing in his poem “Eureka”. He signed his first works with the pseudonym “Boston”. Detective work “Murder on the street Morgue” for authorship marked the beginning of a detective genre in the form in which we know it. Edgar Allan Poe brought fame to the poem “The Crow”. At the same time he received for him only nine dollars.
The exact cause of death of the writer is still unknown, and probably will never be known. At the funeral of the writer, which lasted less than three minutes, was attended by only seven people, including the priest and gravediggers. 24 years after his death, the ashes of Edgar Allan Poe were reburied on a public initiative, and a tombstone with a raven depicted was placed on the grave. The only museum of Edgar Allan Poe is located in the United States, Virginia, the city of Richmond.
