Beginning+of+his+life

"Edger Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, where his mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe had been employed as an actress. He had one brother, William, and a sister named Rosalie. Elizabeth Arnold Poe died in Richmond on December 8, 1811, when William was five years old, Edger three and Rosalie one. "She was twenty-four: young to have been orphaned, widowed, remarried and deserted; young to now be surrended by her three children on her deathbed.Edger was taken into a family of John Allen, a member of the firm of Ellis and Allen, tobacco-merchants." He was also called Jack, Jock, or, as a transplanted Scot, Scotch." "With his long hooked nose and small keen eyes under shaggy eyebrows, he reminded one comtemporary hawk," The author Silverman describes Allen in his book, __Edgar A. Poe, Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance__. The House of Ellis and Allen was not only local or regional, but it was national and international. Edger Allan Poe was considered a shy-looking but handsome man. He was five feet and eight inches with hazel-gray eyes. His eyes had long dark eye lashes and his mouth was considered beautiful.

Poe attended schools in England and Richmond in his childhood. As an adult he registered at the University in Virginia on February 14, 1826. "Edgar enrolled in the schools of ancient languages and of modern languages." Edger thrived for these languages taught by a teacher named George Blaettermann. He also studied Italian and probably some Spanish with great distinction. As exams came near, Edger Allan Poe studied "a great deal in order to be prepared" by working hard. "At the end of the year, he was listed as having excelled in the examination of both senior Latin and senior French class", as stated in section February 1826-March 1827 in __Edgar A. Poe, Mornful and Never-ending Remembrance.__ "He became an active member of the Jefferson Literary Society, and passed his courses with good grades at the end of the session in December. Mr. Allen failed to give him enough money for necessary expenses, and Poe made debts of which his so-called father did not approve. When Mr. Allen refused to let him return to the University, a quarrel ensued, and Poe was driven from the Allen home without money." In Boston on May 26, 1827, Poe enlisted in the United States Army for a five year term in the First Regiment of Artillery as a private using the name Edger A. Perry. "By early 1828 he had become Assistan to the A.C.S" (Assistant Commissary of Subsistance" section March 1827-March 1820 states in __Edger A. Poe, Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance__. He was responsible for arranging the army's food supplies and connections to the quartermaster. Later in the year, he took the duties of a company clerk. In the new year he took the duty of an artificer-an officer usually occupied by a carpenter, blacksmith, or similar merchanic and he was being payed ten dollars a month. His duties in the army were "promptly and faithfully done, His habits are good and entirely free from drinking." After two years of service he was discharged and went to live in Baltimore with his aunt, Marie Poe Clemm, with a small amount of money sent by Mr. Allen. After another quarrel with Allen, Poe no longer received aid from his foster father, the man who always "shuffles me off." Poe then took the only method of release from the Academy, and got himself dismissed on March 6, 1831.

During the time when he was living in Boston, he published a little volume of poetry called Tamerlane and Other Poems. "406 lines of deathbed confessions by the oriental conqueror- and nine much shorter poems" as stated in section, March 1827-March1829 in the novel, __Edgar A. Poe Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance__. Before his step-father and he had the quarrel and he received no more aid, Poe published a second poetry book called, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, in 1829. Seventy-one pages where he chose not to be anonymous anymore but rather to identify himself to the public. Soon after Poe left, a new volume appeared, __Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Second Edition__. It was published in New York around April.a It appeared in 124 pages and was dedicated to the U.S Corps of Cadets. "In calling the book a second edition Edger meant to exclude from his work in the 1827 booklet "By a Bostonian." It also could mean that in the sense that he reprinted several poems from the 1829 volume like revised versions of the "Tummerlane and "Al Araaf". In the same time he dropped six poems and added six new poems such as "To Helen" and "Doomed City. He continued to live in Balitmore with his helpful aunt who lived In Merchanics Row on Wilks Street. Poe was forty-one when he came to live with her. "She had the size and figure of a man," quotes the novel __Edger A. Poe, Mournful and Never-ending.__ She remained single until the age of twenty-seven when she married a local hardware merchant named Wiiliam Clemm, Jr. Sadly, William Clemm died within eight and a half years of their marriage leaving her with eight children, five stepchildren and three of her own. His relatives offered her no help because most of them were opposed to the marriage. Edger also was interested and attached to a seventeen year old named Mary Starr. He visited her every evening for a year, sent notes and proposed marriage. She did not marry him because her brother disapproved of his inability to support himself. On her part she found him jealous and explosive. After a quarrel one night, Mary's mother blocked him and persuaded him to leave, forbidding him to visit her every again. Poe had fallen in love with his cousin,Virginia, who was two weeks into being thirteen years old. "My own darling" he called her and wished to be married to her. Poe worked for a gentlemen named Thomas Willis White who owned a magazine company namend Southern Literary Messenger. Poe was in a businesslike way and did many chores for White. He advised White on articles submitted for publications, edited copy and proof checked, decided typographical matters, solicited manuscripts, kept track of the doings of other magazines, and wrote his own reviews, fillers, fiction, poetry, and editorial comments. These duties kept Poe busy and neglected of his own imaginative writing: "having not time upon my hands," he lamented, "I can write nothing worth reading." Between March and November 1835 he published six new tales and parts of an all-but-finished play in the magazine. Poe's "Berenice," "Morella," and other stories like them drew on a widely popular tradition of Gothic fiction. He did not imitate the Gothic tales, but enriched them with texture, and managing to preserve the narrative drive of some central action that deepened the mood with details that lend events of a reality feel. With his essential concern for the craft of writing, he deliberately spreaded out his narrative with the full range of English punctuation, commas, semicolons, dashes for their variety and effect, sentence structure, and attention getting devices. These sevices were: questions, exclamations, italics, and inverisons. With becoming a magazinest himself, Poe made __The Messenger__ popular and respected. On January 3rd, 1837 Poe retired as an editor of __The Messenger__. "During this time, Poe married his young cousin, Virginia Clemm in Richmond on May 16, 1836."