Edgar Allan Poe
...dard, a person he looked up like his idealistic mother. Around the same time, John Allen started to have financial problems and started drinking. After inheriting a large sums of money, he sent Edgar to the University of Virginia. He soon got thrown out after John Allen refused to pay his gambling debts and went back to Richmond. Soon, after Poe and John Allen had many arguments, so England took on his own and went back to Boston in 1827. There, he wrote his first poem. HE had enrolled in the army under the name Edgar A. Perry. He died well and had the rank of sergeant major. In February 1829, an untimely death to his relative struck again. His stepmother died. Right after in 1830, his stepfather enrolled him at West Point. John Allen soon remarried, Poe realized that he won’t get any inheritance from his stepfather. He started gambling, reelecting his work and drunk heavily. He was dismissed from West Point in March , 1831. He moved in with his aunt and her daughter Virginia Baltimore. There, he started his third collection of poems. As American tastes of poetry progressed, so did his writing, from romances to comedy. In 1833 and 1834, he wrote two serious short stories “MS Found in a Bottle” and “The Assignation.” He rewrote these in the 1840’s. He also published eleven short stories under the title Eleven Tales of Arabesque, which grabbed the attention to John Pendleton Kennedy. Through Kennedy, Poe received an entree to the Southern Literary Messenger. There, he published his first true horror story, “Berenice” in 1835. In 1834, Poe went back to Richmond when he got the news that his stepfather is sick. He hoped that their conflicts would come to an end, but the dying man refused to see Poe. He moved back to Richmond with his aunt and cousin. On May 16, 1836, he married his cousin Virginia when she was just 13. With his newlywed wife and aunt, he moved to New York City and Philadelphia. Since 1837, thinnest 8 years, was a period in which Poe wrote his famous pieces of work which included “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” In later years, he found financial support going back to his comic pieces of writing. In 1842 an outbreak of chorea spread through Philadelphia and that inspired Poe to write and publish “The...