Edgar Allan Poe's Influences

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This passage describes Poe's genres, life and all of his influences. Poe grew up pretty lonely having his mom die at a young age and his dad soon after abandon him. After Poe lost both his parents, he was adopted and attended boarding school when he was 6 and 11. He then ended up moving to Boston and wrote his first poems. In Poe's later years, he moved in with his aunt Marie and his cousin Virginia in Baltimore. While in Baltimore he wrote to his foster dad, Allan, fearing that he was going to get arrested for his big debts. In 1836, Poe got married to his cousin, Virginia. In 1847, Virginia died in New York of tuberculosis. Poe then went back to Baltimore where his aunt had been living but ended up dying while being in delirium.

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