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Edgar Allen Poe

Introduction

Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, USA. His parents, actors wandering troupe, died when Edgar was only two years. Edgar's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was English, his father Edgar, David Poe, - an American of Irish descent. The boy accepted and adopted wealthy merchant John Allan of Virginia.

Childhood

Edgar's childhood passed in an atmosphere rich enough. Allan did not spare funds for his education, although sometimes their deeds were unsuccessful; they even threatened bankruptcy. The boy did not feel it wore "a prince", he had his horse, his dog, his groom. When Edgar was six years old, Allan went to England, where there gave the boy an expensive boarding school in London, where he studied for five years. Upon his return in 1820 by Allan to the United States Edgar went to college in Richmond, which ended in 1826. Check out the education of Edgar was sent to the University of Richmond, had just been founded.

Edgar developed early, and in five years, he read, draw, write, recite, rode. The school is easily absorbed science, has acquired a large stock of knowledge in literature, especially English and Latin, in world history, math, according to some branches of science such as astronomy, physics. Edgar was physically strong, and participated in all the pranks his comrades, and at the university - in all their drinking bouts. The nature of the poet from his childhood was rough, passionate, and impulsive. His behavior was a lot of strange things. From an early age, Edgar wrote poetry and was fond of visionary plans, he loved to make psychological experiments on himself and others, aware of his superiority, and gave it to feel (Silverman, pp. 345).

Life in wealth is over for Edgar, when he was not full 17 years. In college, he spent the entire year. In autumn 1826, there was a gap between John Allan and his adopted son. There is evidence unfavorable to the Edgar Allan Poe, tell us that he had forged a bill signed by J. Allan, that one day, drunk, he rattled off rude, swung at him with a stick, etc. On the other hand, nowhere to find out what a brilliant young man suffered from grown wealthy patron (J. Allan received an unexpected inheritance, making it already a millionaire), it is quite alien to the arts and poetry. The reason for the quarrel was that Allan refused to pay Edgar's gambling debts. The boy thought they were "debt of honor" and saw no other outcome for the salvation of the "honor", leaving a princely house, where grew up (Poe, pp. 67).

Literary Creativity

He stayed in the history of poetry as an artist, who considered the most superficial idea that genius is incompatible with the skill, takes hard work and quite deliberate, with the result that the most subtle experience, the most subtle nuance of thought are available verbal embodiment, based on accurate calculations. Inspired by mathematics pushed his literary contemporaries, ...