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Edgar Allan Poe: Writings
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EATING THE CABIN BOY: in 1837, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. In it, the narrator tells of how three hungry sailors, killed and ate the cabin boy, after being shipwrecked. He was a lad named Richard Parker, and 40 years later, it happened in real life. Captain Dudley of the sailing ship Mignonette, was tried and convicted of Murder. The Mignonette had sunk at sea, and he and his three companions had drifted in an open boat for 16 days. To survive, they ate the ship's cabin boy, who was called Richard Parker.
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The name "Edgar Allan Poe" is generally used to refer to one of several people and one distribution, not all of whom have names that can be spelled correctly. E.A.P: Extremely alcoholic person.
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Poe's dream of a magazine to call his own died hard. He tried three times--Penn Magazine, Stylus, and the Broadway Journal. The first two never got off the ground. Poe never got his promised backing from George Graham for Penn or Thomas Clarke for Stylus. On October 24, 1845, he bought the rights to the Broadway Journal for $50. He became partners with Thomas Lane but lost the magazine, and his dream, in December when Poe left on a drinking spree with no one to cover the column and a half he left open at printing time.
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It's not known exactly how long Poe lived at the 7th Street address. The Poe family moved in sometime in 1842 or 1843 and left in April 1844. Poe rented this house, as was his custom. Historians do not know whether the house was furnished when the Poes arrived. Any furniture and belongings relating to the Poes at this address has vanished. Congress chose the site as a national memorial to Edgar Allan Poe in 1980.
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On September 27, after saying goodbye to Elmira, Poe started his return back to Fordham. He never made it home. October 3, Poe was found in Baltimore, “strangely dressed and semiconscious” (Silverman, 433). On October 7, 1849, Poe died in the hospital of Washington Medical College, of controversial cause. The possibilities are that he died of alcohol poisoning, of delirium tremens, cerebral inflammation, and possibly encephalitis brought on by exposure. His literary estate was left in the care of Rufus Griswold, who notoriously abused that position by doctoring Poe’s letters and documents to cast Poe in the most deplorable and depraved light possible.
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Debts began piling up, Mr. Allan refused to help financially, and finally Edgar had to not only leave his college, but his home as well. Virtually penniless and homeless, Edgar turned to drinking. Gambling was ... becoming a serious problem and his debts were mounting.
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