Arthur Miller and Edgar Allan Poe Considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century is Arthur Miller. His best known plays include 'All My Sons,' 'A View from the Bridge,' 'The Crucible' and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Death of a Salesman.' Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on October 17, 1915 to an immigrant family of Polish and Jewish descent. His father, Isidore, owned a successful coat manufacturing business, and his mother, Augusta, to whom he was closer, was an educator and an avid reader of novels. The affluent Miller family lost almost everything in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and had to move from Manhattan to Flatbush, Brooklyn. After Miller graduated High School, Miller worked a few odd jobs to save
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His father left his family early on, and his mother passed away when he was only three. Separated from his siblings, Poe went to live with John and Frances Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia. He and Frances formed a bond, but he never quite meshed with John. They preferred poetry over profits, Poe wrote poems on the back of some of Allan's business papers. Poe went to college at the University of Virginia in 1826. He was not receiving enough money to cover his funds so he turned to gambling to cover the costs. The Gambling caused him to go into debt. Poe became a literary sensation in 1845 with the publication of the poem "The Raven." It is considered a great American literary work and one of the best of Poe's career.
The works of Arthur Miller aren’t like the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe wrote very gruesome stories and wrote them with stress and heartache. Arthur Miller attended college with money he saved up from part time jobs. Poe used gambling money and had to drop out because he went into debt. The death of Miller was caused by cancer and he lived a long life. Poe’s mysterious death happened at fairly young age. Poe’s death was caused by “congestion of the
His father left his family early on, and his mother passed away when he was only three. Separated from his siblings, Poe went to live with John and Frances Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia. He and Frances formed a bond, but he never quite meshed with John. They preferred poetry over profits, Poe wrote poems on the back of some of Allan's business papers. Poe went to college at the University of Virginia in 1826. He was not receiving enough money to cover his funds so he turned to gambling to cover the costs. The Gambling caused him to go into debt. Poe became a literary sensation in 1845 with the publication of the poem "The Raven." It is considered a great American literary work and one of the best of Poe's career.
The works of Arthur Miller aren’t like the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe wrote very gruesome stories and wrote them with stress and heartache. Arthur Miller attended college with money he saved up from part time jobs. Poe used gambling money and had to drop out because he went into debt. The death of Miller was caused by cancer and he lived a long life. Poe’s mysterious death happened at fairly young age. Poe’s death was caused by “congestion of the