EDGAR ALLAN POE

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Introduction

The journalist, poet, critic and romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on October 7, 1809, in a family of actors, although certainly an epic origin, as his paternal grandfather had been a general in the War Independence, apparently appreciated by Lafayette (Hutchisson, 2005). The early death of his parents, his years in England and a young love thwarted marked personality and work of the great American writer.

Allan Poe's childhood was soon shaken; his father died one year after its coming into the world and his mother, the daughter of an actress ...