Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Poe was born in …

His parents were very … .

At the end of 1811, while acting in Richmond in the State of Virginia, Poe’s mother … .

The homeless infant was brought up by … .

The foster-mother … Edgar.

Indeed, Edgar was treated so kindly by her, that it led to jealousy on the part of her … .

Mr. Allan’s business took him abroad and from 1815 to 1820 Poe lived with the family in … .

Back in the USA, he was sent to the University of … where he showed remarkable ingenuity in mathematics, chemistry and medicine.

Poe was … at university.

Poe took to …

In Boston he published his first volume of poetry … .

Not a single copy was sold. His disappointment and poverty forced him to enlist in the … .

Within a year he was made sergeant-major, but by then he could not stand army life any longer. He wrote to his foster-mother in Richmond, and she urged her husband to … .

Mr. Allan obtained a discharge from the army for him, but when Edgar arrived in Richmond, Mrs. Allan had …

Poe spent a year at the West Point academy, disliking his duties more and more. Finally he provoked his dismissal from the academy by intentionally disobeying orders. He left before he was officially … .

Edgar was left penniless because … .

In 1831 Poe published his third edition of poems, this time in … .

However, Poe first became famous not as a poet, but as a writer of fiction, with a story he wrote for a magazine where he had applied for work. It was the story … .

As a poet and writer his fame spread … .

In 1843 his story “The Gold Bug” won him a prize of 100 … .

In 1845 appeared his collection of poetry … .

In 1836, Poe … a very young girl, Virginia Clemm.

Their home life was very happy, but soon his young wife became very ill with … .

In January 1847 his young wife died (she was only 24). His last poems were "The Bells" and "Annabel Lee".

Edgar Allan Poe's life ended in circumstances so strange, that he might have invented them: he was in Richmond lecturing with brilliant success and even earned a considerable sum of money. Six days later he was found unconscious on the streets of Baltimore. It was suspected that he had been given opium and robbed of the money he had earned. He died four days later, on … 7, 1849, in the Baltimore City Hospital.