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During this period, Poe claimed that its circulation increased from to 3, On May 16, , he and Virginia Clemm held a Presbyterian wedding ceremony at their Richmond boarding house, with a witness falsely attesting Clemm's age as He published numerous articles, stories, and reviews, enhancing his reputation as a trenchant critic which he had established at the Southern Literary Messenger. In June , Poe published a prospectus announcing his intentions to start his own journal called The Stylus.
Around this time, he attempted to secure a position within the Tyler administration , claiming that he was a member of the Whig Party. One evening in January , 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. 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. A Whig Journal under the pseudonym "Quarles". The Broadway Journal failed in That home, since relocated to a park near the southeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road, is now known as the Poe Cottage.
Nearby he befriended the Jesuits at St.
John's College, now Fordham University. Poe was increasingly unstable after his wife's death. Their engagement failed, purportedly because of Poe's drinking and erratic behavior.
There is also strong evidence that Whitman's mother intervened and did much to derail their relationship. On October 3, , Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, "in great distress, and Walker who found him. He 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 that Poe's final words were "Lord help my poor soul". 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. It was soon published throughout the country. The piece began, "Edgar Allan Poe is dead.
He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. Griswold somehow became Poe's literary executor and attempted to destroy his enemy's reputation after his death. Rufus Griswold wrote a biographical article of Poe called "Memoir of the Author", which he included in an volume of the collected works.
Griswold depicted Poe as a depraved, drunken, drug-addled madman and included Poe's letters as evidence. For example, it is now known that Poe was not a drug addict. This occurred in part because it was the only full biography available and was widely reprinted, and in part because readers thrilled at the thought of reading works by an "evil" man.
Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic , [85] a genre that he followed to appease the public taste. Beyond horror, Poe also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes. For comic effect, he used irony and ludicrous extravagance, often in an attempt to liberate the reader from cultural conformity. Poe wrote much of his work using themes aimed specifically at mass-market tastes. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as " The Poetic Principle ". Works with obvious meanings, he wrote, cease to be art. Poe describes his method in writing "The Raven" in the essay " The Philosophy of Composition ", and he claims to have strictly followed this method.
It has been questioned whether he really followed this system, however. During his lifetime, Poe was mostly recognized as a literary critic.
Fellow critic James Russell Lowell called him "the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America", suggesting—rhetorically—that he occasionally used prussic acid instead of ink. Poe accused Longfellow of "the heresy of the didactic", writing poetry that was preachy, derivative, and thematically plagiarized.
Poe was also known as a writer of fiction and became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States. Baudelaire's translations became definitive renditions of Poe's work throughout Europe. Poe's early detective fiction tales featuring C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, "Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it? Wells noted, " Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago. Traven , and David Morrell. Like many famous artists, Poe's works have spawned imitators. One of the most notable of these was Lizzie Doten, who published Poems from the Inner Life in , in which she claimed to have "received" new compositions by Poe's spirit.
The compositions were re-workings of famous Poe poems such as " The Bells ", but which reflected a new, positive outlook. Even so, Poe has received not only praise, but criticism as well. This is partly because of the negative perception of his personal character and its influence upon his reputation. It is believed that only 12 copies have survived of Poe's first book Tamerlane and Other Poems. A Prose Poem , an essay written in , included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang theory by 80 years, [] [] as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers' paradox.
In particular, Poe's suggestions ignored Newtonian principles regarding the density and rotation of planets. Poe had a keen interest in cryptography. He had placed a notice of his abilities in the Philadelphia paper Alexander's Weekly Express Messenger , inviting submissions of ciphers which he proceeded to solve. Capitalizing on public interest in the topic, he wrote " The Gold-Bug " incorporating ciphers as an essential part of the story. His keen analytical abilities, which were so evident in his detective stories, allowed him to see that the general public was largely ignorant of the methods by which a simple substitution cryptogram can be solved, and he used this to his advantage.
Poe had an influence on cryptography beyond increasing public interest during his lifetime. William Friedman , America's foremost cryptologist, was heavily influenced by Poe. The historical Edgar Allan Poe has appeared as a fictionalized character, often representing the "mad genius" or "tormented artist" and exploiting his personal struggles.
Passions, He Had Three Love, Loot and Crash Sir Thomas Lipton Out West Ambrose's Rapid Rise John Allan alternately spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son. A Family Mixup
No childhood home of Poe is still standing, including the Allan family's Moldavia estate. The collection includes many items that Poe used during his time with the Allan family, and also features several rare first printings of Poe works. Its upkeep is now overseen by a group of students and staff known as the Raven Society. Poe is believed to have lived in the home at the age of 23 when he first lived with Maria Clemm and Virginia as well as his grandmother and possibly his brother William Henry Leonard Poe.
Of the several homes that Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria rented in Philadelphia, only the last house has survived. In Boston, a commemorative plaque on Boylston Street is several blocks away from the actual location of Poe's birth.
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