Edgar A. Poe life and misery
EDGAR A. POE
Edgar Allen Poe son of the actress Eliza Poe and actor David Poe Jr., was born January 19,1809. His father was from a good Baltimore family and drunk heavily. His mother however was a good actress but she died of tuberculosis in Richmond Virginia in December of 1811. After this at the age of 3, Edgar and his brother and sister were orphaned. Edgar went to the home of John and Fanny Allan who lived …
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…and short stories. Poor Poe lost every thing. He lost his mother, brother, aunt and young wife to tuberculosis. His misery is what I think drove him to be a heavy alcoholic. His addiction to alcohol cost him many jobs, and moving around all the time like a nomad. Poe has lived a sad and hard life but while living his sad and hard life he managed to write great books, poems and short stories.
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