It is instinctual to utter the name Edgar Allan Poe in the midst of forming an image of uncontrollable moodiness filled with grotesque, nebulous beauty. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A master of the macabre, he was the founder of the science fiction and mystery genre in literature. He wrote everything from literary criticism, to horror, poetry, a novel, short-stories and hundreds of essays. Today he is labeled the “Father of the Detective Story.”
Although Poe made a small earning from his literature, his income was acquired sejak Penulisan literary criticism; he was known for his brutal reviews. In the late 1830s, he published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, a collection of stories, which were profoundly disturbing to the public. Unorthodoxly written in first narrative for his time, his stories contained content of using opium and the terror of ghosts, which propelled Poe’s audience to believe he was disproportionally strange, wicked, disturbed, and drugged induced.
In 1845, Poe became a household name after “The Raven” was published. It followed the similar themes of death and loss, which plagued his life from birth. Critics often alluded to the death of his mother and his wife, Virginia Clemm, as inspiration for the repeated composition of the death of beautiful women in his literature. In a letter to George W. Eveleth on January 4, 1848, Poe revealed:
"Each time I felt all the agonies of her death — and at each accession of the disorder I loved her lebih dearly and clung to her life with lebih desperate pertinacity…I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity…I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope of a permanent cure when I found one in the death of my wife…It was the horrible never-ending oscillation between hope and despair which I could not longer have endured without the total loss of reason."
Haunted sejak grief after the death of his lovely wife, Virginia in 1847, Poe continued to work, but struggled financially and with his health. His final days still remain a mystery. He was taken to a hospital on October 3, 1849, after experiencing great distress. He died on October 7; it has been recorded that his last words were:
"Lord, help my poor soul."
In his epoch, Poe’s death was labeled as “congestion of the brain.” Though this conclusion is defective, some experts argue that alcoholism might have led to his self-destruction. Other conditions such as rabies, epilepsy, and carbon monoxide poisoning are theories of his death.
NOTABLE WORKS
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
The Tell-tale hati, tengah-tengah (1843)
The Raven (1845)
Annabel Lee (1849)
Although Poe made a small earning from his literature, his income was acquired sejak Penulisan literary criticism; he was known for his brutal reviews. In the late 1830s, he published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, a collection of stories, which were profoundly disturbing to the public. Unorthodoxly written in first narrative for his time, his stories contained content of using opium and the terror of ghosts, which propelled Poe’s audience to believe he was disproportionally strange, wicked, disturbed, and drugged induced.
In 1845, Poe became a household name after “The Raven” was published. It followed the similar themes of death and loss, which plagued his life from birth. Critics often alluded to the death of his mother and his wife, Virginia Clemm, as inspiration for the repeated composition of the death of beautiful women in his literature. In a letter to George W. Eveleth on January 4, 1848, Poe revealed:
"Each time I felt all the agonies of her death — and at each accession of the disorder I loved her lebih dearly and clung to her life with lebih desperate pertinacity…I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity…I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope of a permanent cure when I found one in the death of my wife…It was the horrible never-ending oscillation between hope and despair which I could not longer have endured without the total loss of reason."
Haunted sejak grief after the death of his lovely wife, Virginia in 1847, Poe continued to work, but struggled financially and with his health. His final days still remain a mystery. He was taken to a hospital on October 3, 1849, after experiencing great distress. He died on October 7; it has been recorded that his last words were:
"Lord, help my poor soul."
In his epoch, Poe’s death was labeled as “congestion of the brain.” Though this conclusion is defective, some experts argue that alcoholism might have led to his self-destruction. Other conditions such as rabies, epilepsy, and carbon monoxide poisoning are theories of his death.
NOTABLE WORKS
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
The Tell-tale hati, tengah-tengah (1843)
The Raven (1845)
Annabel Lee (1849)