Edgar Allan Poe?

Question

Edgar Allan Poe is an author.

1. what is he known for?

2. Why is he famous?

any websites?

Answer 1

Poe, Edgar Allan {poh}
Best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Jan. 19, 1809, died Oct. 7, 1849 in Baltimore, deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. He also produced some of the most influential literary criticism of his time -- important theoretical statements on poetry and the short story -- and has had a worldwide influence on literature.

Daguerreotype, 1848

Early Life and Work
Poe's parents, David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins, were touring actors; both died before he was 3 years old, and he was taken into the home of John Allan, a prosperous merchant in Richmond, Va., and baptized Edgar Allan Poe. His childhood was uneventful, although he studied (1815-20) for 5 years in England. In 1826 he entered the University of Virginia but stayed for only a year. Although a good student, he ran up large gambling debts that Allan refused to pay. Allan prevented his return to the university and broke off Poe's engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster, his Richmond sweetheart. Lacking any means of support, Poe enlisted in the army. He had, however, already written and printed (at his own expense) his first book,Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), verses written in the manner of Byron.

Temporarily reconciled, Allan secured Poe's release from the army and his appointment to West Point but refused to provide financial support. After 6 months Poe apparently contrived to be dismissed from West Point for disobedience of orders. His fellow cadets, however, contributed the funds for the publication of Poems by Edgar A. Poe ... Second Edition (1831), actually a third edition -- after Tamerlane and Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829). This volume contained the famous To Helen and Israfel, poems that show the restraint and the calculated musical effects of language that were to characterize his poetry.

Editorial Career
Poe next took up residence in Baltimore with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia, and turned to fiction as a way to support himself. In 1832 the Philadelphia Saturday Courier published five of his stories -- all comic or satiric -- and in 1833, MS. Found in a Bottle won a $50 prize given by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor.
Poe, his aunt, and Virginia moved to Richmond in 1835, and he became editor of the Southern Literary Messenger and married Virginia, who was not yet 14 years old.

Poe published fiction, notably his most horrifying tale, Berenice in the Messenger, but most of his contributions were serious, analytical, and critical reviews that earned him respect as a critic. He praised the young Dickens and a few other contemporaries but devoted most of his attention to devastating reviews of popular contemporary authors. His contributions undoubtedly increased the magazine's circulation, but they offended its owner, who also took exception to Poe's drinking. The January 1837 issue of the Messenger announced Poe's withdrawal as editor but also included the first installment of his long prose tale, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, five of his reviews, and two of his poems. This was to be the paradoxical pattern for Poe's career: success as an artist and editor but failure to satisfy his employers and to secure a livelihood.

First in New York City (1837), then in Philadelphia (1838-44), and again in New York (1844-49), Poe sought to establish himself as a force in literary journalism, but with only moderate success. He did succeed, however, in formulating influential literary theories and in demonstrating mastery of the forms he favored -- highly musical poems and short prose narratives. Both forms, he argued, should aim at "a certain unique or single effect." His theory of short fiction is best exemplified in Ligeia (1838), the tale Poe considered his finest, and The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1839), which was to become one of his most famous stories.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is sometimes considered the first detective story. Exemplary among his musical, mellifluous verses are The Raven (1845) and The Bells (1849).

Virginia's death in January 1847 was a heavy blow, but Poe continued to write and lecture. In the summer of 1849 he revisited Richmond, lectured, and was accepted anew by the fiancee he had lost in 1826. After his return north he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street. In a brief obituary the Baltimore Clipper reported that Poe had died of "congestion of the brain."

Bibliography
Bittner, William, Poe: A Biography (1962)
Buranelli, Vincent: Edgar Allan Poe (1962)
Davidson, Edward H., Poe: A Critical Study (1957)
Hoffman, Daniel G.: Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (1973)
Levin, Harry: The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville (1958)
Miller, John C.: Building Poe Biography (1977)
Poe, Edgar Allan: Letters, ed. by John Ward Ostrom, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1966)
Regan, Robert, ed.: Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays (1967)
Symons, Julian: The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1978)
Wagenknecht, Edward: Edgar Allan Poe: The Man behind the Legend (1963)

Answer 2

Edgar Allan Poe best know for the first one to ever write detective story. His detective stories like Telltale Heart attracted the attention of European intellectuals. He became the first American writer to be admired by the European intellecturals. Yet his life was sad. He got kicked out of West Point Academy as a young man. And ended up dying in the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, after a barroom brawl. Other famous works by Poe are The Raven, Murder on the Rouge Morgue, etc. In lived in the early part of the 19th Century. And also was a famous poet.

Answer 3

Edgar Allan Poe is an amazing "dark romantic" author. He pretty much created that form of writing (dark romanticism) in the United States. He was also one of the first horror authors, particularly in the US.
He is best known for his poem, "The Raven", as well as numerous short stories, some of the popular ones include "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Black Cat".

Answer 4

Edgar Allen Poe is often considered the modern master of short stories. He was a romantic and he is respected and known for having described the symptoms of paranoia and schiczophonia before the terms were even invented. He is also know for having a very introspective view of the world. He would examine as if with a very focused eye, but instead of the eye pointed outward it pointed into his own psysche. Also because he was a romantic he is know for including all the classically romantic aspects into his short stories. These include the manipulation of nature and the focus on trancendentalism.

Answer 5

He was a talented American writer who wrote The Raven (1845), Annabel Lee (1848), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841, The Purloined Letter (1845), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), and many more including my favorites The Cask of Amontillado (1846) that is kind of like a Steven King story and The Tell-tale Heart (1843). He is credited as having invented the detective story. He was also a poverty-stricken alcoholic who did drugs and married his thirteen year old cousin just like Jerry Lee Lewis(early rock and roller) did.

Answer 6

SOme of his most famous works of literature are the poems:
The Raven
Annabal Lee

He is also known for the stories:
Fall of The House Of Usher
The Pit and The Pendulam
The Cask of Amantilldo.

Answer 7

He is know for writing Gothic, mystery, twisted, psychological ,horror short stories and poems. He was one of the first American mystery and short story authors. He is famous for the Tell Tale Heart and The Raven. He had some psychological problems, too.

Answer 8

he is a famous Romantic author, with famous poems, shortstories etc. he is credited with the emergence of the genre "science fiction". anything else?

Answer 9

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