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Edgar Allan Poe: Annie Richmond
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Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, where his mother had been employed as an actress. Elizabeth Arnold Poe died in Richmond on December 8, 1811. This makes Eddie Poe one month short of being three years old. It cannot be ignored that a smart three year old will understand the impact of the death of his mother and that he and his siblings are three children without a Mum now.
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Poe returned briefly to Richmond, but his relationship with Allan deteriorated. In 1827, he moved to Boston and enlisted in the United States Army. His first collection of poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems, was published that year. In 1829, he published a second collection entitled Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. Neither volume received significant critical or public attention. Following his Army service, Poe was admitted to the United States Military Academy, but he was again forced to leave for lack of financial support.
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None of the homes Poe lived in in Richmond are still standing, neither the great house, Moldavia, nor the boarding houses and taverns. A house Poe visited, Talavara, privately owned and unmarked, still stands on a quiet block of West Grace Street. Poe gave his last reading of "The Raven" at Talavara on September 25, 1849. Another privately owned house that Poe visited is the clearly marked Elmira Shelton house at 2407 East Grace Street. The Craig (Stith) house on the corner of 19th and East Grace Streets, currently undergoing renovation, is the girlhood home of Jane Stanard, who inspired Poe's first "To Helen" lyric.
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The general tone of literary criticism in the United States at the time Poe began to write for the Southern Literary Messenger was either perfunctory, fulsome, or dull. The comment of the young man in Richmond was interesting, disturbing and refreshing. His frequent severity elicited reply and remark, and though he aroused antagonism in some quarters, his presence on the scene and the trenchancy of his style became more and more evident. A number of the stories which Poe had prepared for "Tales of the Folio Club" in Baltimore before receiving the Saturday Visitor Prize, he now published in the Messenger. Such stories as "Metzengerstein" attracted considerable notice, as they well might, and added not a little to his reputation. In some of them a marked morbidity was even then noted and deprecated.
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Poe's wife, Virginia, died in January 1847. The following year he went to Providence, Rhode Island, to woo Sarah Helen Whitman, a poet. There was a brief engagement. Poe had close but platonic entanglements with Annie Richmond and with Sarah Anna Lewis, who helped him financially. He composed poetic tributes to all of them. In 1848 he ... published the lecture Eureka, a transcendental “explanation” of the universe, which has been hailed as a masterpiece by some critics and as nonsense by others.
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Poe spent the next years living in Baltimore with his aunt, Mrs. Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia. One of his best stories, "A MS. Found in a Bottle," won him a job on the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. He proved an able editor, greatly increasing circulation. But he had begun drinking heavily, and he soon parted company with the magazine.
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