Edgar Allan Poe
... Edgar Allan Poe was an author during the Native Grounds period. Poe, just like other authors of this period, wrote about Romanticism and Classicism. ... ” “With greater artistry, Poe would develop the material Brown used in the eighteenth century.” Poe’s first volume of poetry was published in 1827. ... This was the America into which Edgar Allan Poe emerged as a writer. This is the literary period that influenced and shaped Edgar Allan Poe and assured his success as an American author. Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts.