Mohamed+Abou+El-Atta


 * 1) Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809
 * 2) Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts
 * 3) Was an American poet
 * 4) Edgar is very popular for his poems
 * 5) Considered part of the American romantic movement
 * 6) Best known for his tales of mystery
 * 7) Earliest American practitioners of the short story
 * 8) Considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre
 * 9) First American to try to earn a living through writing alone
 * 10) He was orphaned as a young boy when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family
 * 11) Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan but never formally adopted him
 * 12) The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812
 * 13) John Allan spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son
 * 14) The family sailed to Britain in 1815
 * 15) Poe attended the grammar school in Scotland
 * 16) There he studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until summer 1817
 * 17) Poe moved back with the Allans to Richmond, Virginia in 1820
 * 18) In March, 1825 Poe's uncle was the wealthiest man in Richmond
 * 19) Later Poe's uncle dies and left Poe with 750,000 dollars
 * 20) In summer of 1825 Poe celebrated his wealth by purchasing a 2 story brick home named Moldavia


 * 1) Poe moved back to Boston in 1827 because he did not feel welcome in Richmond
 * 2) He went to the University of Virginia for 1 semester then left because lack of money
 * 3) Enlisted in the army than he failed to be the officer's cadet
 * 4) Spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals
 * 5) In Baltimore in 1935 he got married to Virginia Clemm his 13 year old cousin
 * 6) In January 1845 Poe published his poem "The Raven" which led him to instant success
 * 7) His wife died from tuberculosis 2 years after " The Raven" was published
 * 8) He began planning to produce his own journal, //The Penn// (later named the Stylus)
 * 9) He died before it could be produced
 * 10) In April 1841, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murder in the Rue Morgue" was in Grahams Magazines
 * 11) on August //19, 1843// Poe published his short story "The Black Cat" in the Saturday Evening Post.
 * 12) In 1835, Poe moved back to Richmond and became the editor of the Southern Literary messenger
 * 13) He continued to publish short stories and poetry
 * 14) literary journalism was not a well-paying field so Poe wasn't very healthy
 * 15) worked for Burton's Gentleman's magazines from 1839 to 1840
 * 16) Then moved to Graham's (1841-42), and finally to the Broadway Journal //,// where he worked as chief editor until early 1846
 * 17) Poe dreamed of publishing his own magazines, the closest he came to fulfilling his dream was was to become the proprietor of the Broadway journal for a short time
 * 18) However he could not make the magazines as successful as he wanted to because his capabilities as an writer were limited since he was a business manager.
 * 19) Poe wanted to show his capability but couldn't
 * 20) Poe later quit


 * 1) The primary aim of any literary work is to create a mood
 * 2) Poe's work as an editor, a poet, and a critic had a profound impact on American and international literature.
 * 3) His stories mark him as one of the originators of both horror and detective fiction.
 * 4) Many anthologies credit him as the "architect" of the modern short story.
 * 5) He was also one of the first critics to focus primarily on the effect of the style and of the structure in a literary work
 * 6) he has been seen as a forerunner to the "art for art's sake" movement
 * 7) French Symbolists such as Mallarmé and Rimbaud claimed him as a literary precursor
 * 8) Baudelaire spent nearly fourteen years translating Poe into French.
 * 9) he was found in a state of semi-consciousness
 * 10) Poe's life-long struggle with depression and alcoholism worsened
 * 11) Poe began to sell short stories to magazines
 * 12) he became the editor of the Southern literary messenger in Richmond
 * 13) Poe wins a hundred dollar prize for the " Gold Bug"
 * 14) Poe moves back to New York City
 * 15) Thousands were deceived by Poe's story, " The balloon Hoax"
 * 16) Poe writes " The Purloined letter"
 * 17) Poe writes "the Raven"
 * 18) Poe was working 14 hour days but still couldn't make a living
 * 19) Poe writes "The Philosophy of Composition".
 * 20) Poe sues another paper for libel and wins. The suit is settled for $225.00


 * 1) Poe's wife, Virginia, dies from tuberculosis on January 30
 * 2) Poe writes "The Poetic Principle".
 * 3) June 30 - Poe leaves NYC and visits John Sartain in Philadelphia.
 * 4) July 13 - Poe goes to Richmond and stays at the Swan Tavern Hotel
 * 5) Poe joins the "Sons of Temperance" in an effort to stop drinking.
 * 6) Poe lectures on "The Poetic Principle".
 * 7) Sept 27 - Poe leaves Richmond and goes back to Philadelphia
 * 8) Sept 30 - Poe apparently gets on the wrong train and goes to Baltimore
 * 9) Oct 3 - Poe is found half conscious and is taken to a hospital
 * 10) Poe influenced literature
 * 11) On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious
 * 12) he was in need of immediate assistance
 * 13) taken to the Washington College Hospital
 * 14) where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849
 * 15) Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his condition
 * 16) Poe was not wearing his own clothes
 * 17) Some sources say Poe's final words were "Lord help my poor soul"
 * 18) All medical records, including his death certificate, have been lost.
 * 19) Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as "congestion of the brain"
 * 20) The actual cause of Poe's death remains a mystery

[]

[]

[]

[]