To make matters worse, Elmira had become engaged to someone else. Poe then moved to Boston. He then went to West Point, where once again he did well academically, but ran into financial issues. Poe was court marshalled for extreme dereliction of duty. He then moved to Baltimore.
In Baltimore Poe lived with several relatives, including his aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter, Virginia. Poe lived in Baltimore for four years, during which time he shifted from writing poetry to short stories. One publication that took special interest in him was the Southern Literary Messenger based in Richmond, Virginia. Editor Thomas White offered Poe a job on the staff of the Messenger. Poe agreed and moved back to Richmond.
Poe invited his aunt and cousin, Maria and Virgina to live with him in Richmond. One year later, Poe and Virginia then got married.
She was 13, he was This is an unlikely pairing and there is much debate about the nature of their relationship. Although many people today presume their relationship was familial, we ultimately will never know what happened in their marriage behind closed doors. Virginia and Maria had a stabilizing effect on Poe.
He began to devote his attention to Virginia, who became his literary inspiration as well as his love interest. The couple married in when she was only 13 years old. Poe was overcome by grief following her death, and although he continued to work, he suffered from poor health and struggled financially until his death in Poe self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems , in As a critic at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond from to , Poe published some of his own works in the magazine, including two parts of his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
In late s, Poe published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque , a collection of short stories. In it, the narrator, a one-time animal lover, becomes an alcoholic who begins abusing his wife and black cat. The story was later included in the short story collection, Tales by Edgar Allan Poe. Later in his career, Poe continued to work in different forms, examining his own methodology and writing in general in several essays, including "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Poetic Principle" and "The Rationale of Verse.
Poe died on October 7, His final days remain somewhat of a mystery. Poe left Richmond on September 27, , and was supposedly on his way to Philadelphia. On October 3, he was found in Baltimore in great distress. Poe was taken to Washington College Hospital, where he died four days later. His last words were "Lord, help my poor soul. At the time, it was said that Poe died of "congestion of the brain. Some experts believe that alcoholism led to his demise while others offer up alternative theories.
Rabies, epilepsy and carbon monoxide poisoning are just some of the conditions thought to have led to the great writer's death. Academy of American Poets. American Poets Magazine. Poets Search more than 3, biographies of contemporary and classic poets. Edgar Allan Poe — Related Poets. Walt Whitman. John Keats. Herman Melville. John Ashbery. William Blake.
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