Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A British Poet

Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe's life was bombarded with misery, financial problems, and death but he still managed to become a world-renowned writer. Although he attended the most prestigious of schools he was often looked over as a writer and poet during his career. His stories were odd and misunderstood during their time. However, now they are loved a read by millions.

Edgar Allen Poe was bone in Boston on January 19 1809 to David and Elizabeth Poe. He lost his parents at the age of two years and had to be adopted by John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan. John Allan was a very wealthy man but he only gave Edgar a third of his school requirements and this alienated him from Edgar. When Allan’s wife dies Edgar also decides to move out because he could not put up with John Allan. Edgar loved poetry from a tender age. He even wrote verses to girls that he developed feelings for. He could have had his first poetry book published by the age of 14 years but there was no support both from his teachers and his adoptive parents. In the course of his life Edgar became an alcoholic and mentally disturbed and this enhanced his writing skills. He created his characters trough imagination to show mystery and adventure.

Edgar Allan Poe manifested his life into what he wrote; the melancholic effects from living in poverty and his beloved wife dying, created hints of somberness that emanates throughout his work. Poe was an accomplished writer of many works such as The Tell Tale Heart and The pit and The Pendulum. Poe’s life pushed him to the limits of sanity as well as advancing his creative thinking processes to the fullest. Throughout the years of his young adult life, he suffered hardships that would shape the rest of his career as a promising writer.

He was a grotesque, faineant, corpulent, and snide man. This had nothing to do with his punishment as he was placed in the middle of a pogrom against Danish people who threw cinnamon at unmarried singles in their mid-to-late twenties. Alas, Alfred was allergic to cinnamon, inevitably showing the symptoms of dermatitis as well as experiencing, from my recollection, his seventh ever anaphylactic shock .

Born on January 19, 1909 to traveling actors, Poe was the middle child of two other siblings, William and Rosalie Poe. Only three years after Edgar’s birth, both of his parents had died and he was adopted by John Allan, a wealthy tobacco merchant, and his spouse Frances Valentine Allan. The Allan family took Edgar with them to Richmond, Virginia. Edgar’s siblings did not come with him to Virginia as they went to each went to different families. While John Allen dreamed that Poe would become a wealthy and famous businessman, Poe had the dream to be a writer. Poe’s childhood hero had been the British poet Lord Byron

To start, Edgar Allan Poe suffered through tragedy, poverty, and failure most of his life, all trials that would mold him into a master of macabre literature. In January of 1809, Edgar Allan Poe, writer and poet, “…was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia.”(“Edgar Allan Poe”). Poe never truly knew his parents before they tragically passed on. Yet, being almost three years of age, he did have some sense of loss, an emotion often present in his short stories and poems. About thirty years later, Poe found himself burdened by poverty, and in 1842, his wife, the person who brought him peace at this time, was

As a result from the death of Poe’s mother caused by tuberculosis (called consumption then), it caused him to be orphaned before the age of three. According to an article, “5 Things You Didn’t Know About Edgar Allan Poe”, he gives an interesting fact stating, “[. . .] his class-act father responded to her death by abandoning Poe and his two siblings” (Trex, WEB). This major loss during

He grew up in the aristocratic Virginian society, where he developed qualms regarding materialism. As a schoolboy, Poe yearned for affection and appreciation of his intellect. His adoptive parents reciprocated with monetary payment and splendor rather than the emotional upholding that he needed to keep a good mental health. Later, Poe married his cousin Virginia, his sole love, who battled illness for the latter part of her ephemeral life and eventually died of tuberculosis. This left Edgar Allan Poe a wreck, as he turned to drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism. Throughout his entire life, Edgar Allan Poe was burdened by many events that led to his depression and dislike of human nature.

Edgar Allan Poe had a peculiar way with his work. He was adopted early in his life to be spared from poverty and heartache (Roberts and Zweig 226). But in the Big Read it is stated that he still felt a satisfaction from women’s suffering. Poe just wanted to be a writer and followed his passion into judging others work to support himself (Roberts and Zweig 226). Some say that he is selfish and indulgent. Sadly the death of Poe is still a mystery but his works affect people’s lives on a daily basis. The elegance of Poe’s prose invokes an emotional reaction he was subject to during his childhood that later led to the creation of the most influential works of the 19th Century.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem called, “The Raven,” which is the only one of his poems that I have studied in the past. Now I also was able to study a couple of his short stories, “The Fall of The House of Usher” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” With these two examples of early American Literature from just one author, I have been able to conclude that the time period was experiencing a decline in mental stability. Authors like Poe had been turning to alcohol and drugs during this time, and

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, and led a very traumatic life. Both of his parents died of consumption when he was two years old, and then “Mr. John Allan, a very wealthy gentleman of Richmond, Virginia, took a fancy to me, and persuaded my grandfather, General Poe, to suffer him to adopt me” (Symons 3). Though he never legally adopted him, John Allan gave him the name “Edgar Allan Poe.” Poe and his adoptive father never had a healthy

and at age five he was a witness to a series of charters given to

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a favorite poet of generations. Made Poet Laureate of Great Britain by Queen Victoria, he dominated the literary scene during his time. He also came--for better and for worse--to represent that generation 's taste, both during his life and after it. Tennyson 's rich __Victorian language__ can seem daunting to modern readers. In reading ‘’Maud’’, it 's a good idea to just embrace the exaggerated concepts. Experimental in style, laden with intense symbolism, and full of __social criticism__, ‘’Maud’’ was not a popular poem at first, despite its author 's status. Tennyson himself was proud of the work, and retaliated against criticism by reading it aloud whenever he could. Reportedly, this won over many critics due to the beauty of the poem 's language.

Edgar Allan Poe born on January 19, 1809, was known as the creator of the modern detective story and innovator of the science fiction genre. Although, people identify him because of his horror stories as well as his haunting lyric poetry, there was a different side of him other than a gruesome, mysterious individual prowling in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries. Poe’s childhood was very tragic and affected his adult life when growing up. Poe was the second son of actors David and Elizabeth Poe. Shortly after Poe was born, his father abandoned the family in 1810 and the following death of his twenty-four year old mother in 1811, left Poe an orphan at the young age of three. Poe was adopted by a guy named john, who was a strict unemotional

Sir Thomas Wyatt was born in the year 1503. The son of Sir Henry Wyatt and Anne Skinner, he went on to attend St. John’s College in Cambridge. He first took a place in the court of King Henry VIII in 1516. In the year 1520 he was married to Elizabeth Brooke at the age of seventeen. His son, of the same name, was born in the year 1521. Wyatt’s marriage to Elizabeth was miserable and the couple is believed to have been “estranged by the second half of the 1520s” (Burrow). Thomas Wyatt and Elizabeth Brooke were separated in 1525 when Wyatt accused his wife of adultery. Much of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poetry is reflective of his love life. His personal relationships served as inspiration for a notable amount of his work. In his poem “Blame not my