Edgar Allan Poe

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minor poems" but this time under the name
of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other
cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a
second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel".
These poems show the musical effect that has come to characterize Poe's poems.
Later Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his ant. There he married his cousin
who was only 13 years old. Then Poe moved to New York to become famous, but with
almost no success. Poe had after 1837 his best period with his greatest works as
"The murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) and "The fall of the house of Usher"
(1839). Poe's wife passed away in 1847, and Poe took it hard. Yet he continued
with his writing until he died the on 7th October 1849 by alcoholic poisoning.

Edgar Allan Poe was mostly known for his analytic and criticising analyses. It
was them which gave him respect as a critic. Poe was influenced by the ...

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dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

" Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrowvainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow�sorrow for the lost Lenore
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
...

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