who is edgar allen poe heroes?

Question

who did he look up to who did he like

Answer 1

Poe's early influences being the stories of house slaves and the tales told by skippers and sea merchants. The dead and dying would always have a strong hold over Edgar, as demonstrated by the story that a six-year old Edgar was once "seized with terror" as he passed by a local graveyard, convinced that the spirits of the undead would run after him. In 1815, the family went to Scotland and England, where they lived for five years. Poe's schoolboy experiences there added further influences to the young writer's life.

By 1832, Edgar began to write fiction with the idea of entering story contests. He also discovered opium, a commonly used medicine at the time, it was a stimulant that masked hunger and cold and extended sense of time. During the summer he had an amorous affair with a girl named Mary Deveraux which eventually ended, largely because of his frightening behavior when he was under the influences of alcohol or drugs. In 1833 he won a $50 literary prize from a Baltimore newspaper for his story, Ms. Found In A Bottle. This brought him his first major recognition and fame in local literary circles.

His addictions became worse by slowly watching his wife Virginia die of consumption, which had claimed the lives of much of his family early in his life, which had left him orphaned. This led to his demise and early death.

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