Edgar Allan Poe -The forever Mystery

  born in Boston, Massachusetts January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849an American author, poet, editor and literary criticBest known for his tales of mystery and the macabre
Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genreHe is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Early lifeHis parents were David and Elizabeth Poe.Elizabeth Arnold came to U.S. from England in 1796 and married David Poe after her first husband died in 1805. They had three children. Henery, Edgar and Rosalie.Elizabeth Poe died in 1811, when Edgar was 2 years old.She had separated from her husband and had taken her three kids with her.Henry went to live with his grand parents while Edgar was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan , and Rosalie was taken in by another family. John Allan was a successful merchant, so Edgar grew up in good surroundings and went to good schools CareerHis publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems After his early attempts at poetry, Poe had turned his attention to prose. He placed a few stories with a Philadelphia publication and began work on his only drama politian
 The story brought him to the attention of John P. Kennedy ,  a Baltimorean of considerable means. He helped Poe place some of his stories, and introduced him to Thomas W. White, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond .
 Poe became assistant editor of the periodical in August 1835 but was discharged within a few weeks for having been caught drunk by his boss. Returning to Baltimore, Poe secretly married Virginia, his cousin, on September 22, 1835. He was 26 and she was 13, though she is listed on the marriage certificate as being 21. Reinstated by White after promising good behavior, Poe went back to Richmond with Virginia and her mother. He remained at the Messenger until January 1837. During this period, Poe claimed that its circulation increased from 700 to 3,500. He published several poems, book reviews, critiques, and stories in the paper. On May 16, 1836, he had a second wedding ceremony in Richmond with Virginia Clemm, this time in public.One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as Tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano. Poe described it as breaking a blood vessel in her throat. She only partially recovered. Poe began to drink more heavily under the stress of Virginia's illness. He left Graham's and attempted to find a new position, for a time angling for a government post. He returned to New York, where he worked briefly at The Evening Mirror before becoming editor of The Broadway Journal  and, later, sole owner.The Broadway Journal failed in 1846. 

 Poe moved to a cottage in the Fordham  section of The Bronx, New York.
That home, known today as the "Poe Cottage. Virginia died there on January 30, 1847. Biographers and critics often suggest that Poe's frequent theme of the "death of a beautiful woman" stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his wife 

List of works

Short Stories

• " Manuscript found in a bottle "1833( adventure at sea)
• "Berenice" 1835( horror story about teeth)

 "Liegeia"1838 (a haunting supernatural tale

• "silence-a fable" 1838(a dream)
• "the fall of the house of Usher"1839(an old house and its secrets)
• "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"1841 (a detective story)
• "William Wilson"1842(identical twins or something else?)
• "the Gold Bug"1843(a search for pirate treasure)
• "The angel of the old odd"1844(comedy about being drunk)
• " The black cat" 1845(horror story about a cat)
• "Adescent into the Maelstrom"1845(man vs.nature,adventure story)
• "The Facts in the cade of M. Valdemar"1845(talking with a dead man)
• "Hop Frog" 1845 (a midget seeks revenge)
•  "The Purloined Letter"1845(a detective story)
•  the man of the crowd1845( how to follow someone
• "The Cask of Amontillado"1846(a story about revenge)
• "Mesmeric revelation"1849 (conversation with a hypnotized dying man)
• "Eleonora 1850 (a love story)
• "The Imp of the Perverse"1850(procrastination and confession)
• "Never bet the devil your head"1850(a comedy with a moral)
• "The Oval Portrait"1850(a tragic love story)
•  "The Pit and the Pendulum"1850(a torture chamber)
• "The Premature Burial"1850(about being buried alive)
•  "The tell Tale Heart"1850( a murder's guilt)
• "Some words with a mummy"1850(a mummy speaks)
• "The spectacles 1850(a  comedy about love at first sight)
• "The System of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether"1856inside an insane asylum
• The Mask of the Red Death" 
•     "Morella

    Poetry:·

        "Al Araaf"
·        "Annabel Lee"1849
·        "The bells"1849
·        "The City in the Sea"1831
·        "The Conqueror Worm"1843
·        "A Dream within a Dream"1850
·        "Eldorado"1849
·        "Eulalie"
·        The Haunted Palace"1839
·        "To Helen"
·        "Lenore"
·        "The Raven"1845
·        "Tamerlane"
·        "Ulalume"

the sleeper1831

to the river1829

spirits of the deas 1829

A valentine 1850 

the valley of unrest1845

Alone1875

in this link you will find a Poem never published in his life time" Alone"

http://blueskiesdream.blogspot.com/2012/09/alone-by-edgar-allan-poe.html
Other works:·     

   "Politian" (Poe's only play 1835)
·        "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket" ( Poe's only complete novel 1838)
·        "The Balloon Hoax"( A journalistic Hoax printed as a true story 1844)
·        "The Philosophy of Composition"(Essay1846)
·        "Eureka: Aprose Poem "(Essay1846)
·        "The Poetic Principle"(Essay 1848)
·        "The Light House"(Poe's last incomplete work)
 "The island of the fay" 1850( a poetic discussion)

Death 

On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker. 

He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849, at 5:00 in the morning. Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own. Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name "Reynolds" on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring. Some sources say Poe's final words were "Lord help my poor soul All medical records, including his death certificate, have been lost. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as "congestion of the brain" or "cerebral inflammation", common Euphemisms for deaths from disreputable causes such as alcoholism. 

The actual cause of death remains a mystery. Speculation has included Delirium Tremens, Heart Disease, Epilepsy, syphilis, Meningeal Inflammation, Cholera, and Rabies !!!
 One theory, dating from 1872, indicates that cooping – in which unwilling citizens who were forced to vote for a particular candidate were occasionally killed – was the cause of Poe's death

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