1. Biography A Dark Romantic (Darkness of the Mind) Childhood College
Military Service
Marriage
Poems
Prose

2. Childhood Born – Boston, MA 1809 Mother – Elizabeth Arnold
(Actress-died when Edgar=2)
Father – David Poe (left family, died)
Taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Foster child)
Wealthy tobacco merchant
Wanted Edgar to follow in his footsteps

3. College University of Virginia No $$$ for tuition Solution? – Gambling
University Debts - tuition
“Gentleman” Debts – friends
John Allan refused to pay Edgar’s debts
Forced to leave the university

4. Military Service U.S. Army – E.A. Perry
West Point (USMA) – purposefully was expelled
Grief over death of Frances Allan
Poor relationship between
Edgar and John Allan

5. Marriage Virginia Clemm First Cousin Age 13 Eleven years of marriage
Lived with her mother/his aunt Maria
Died of Tuberculosis
“Annabel Lee” is poem about Virginia

6. Poetry
Annabel Lee
The Raven
The Bells
Ulalume
To Helen

7. Prose Tales of the Macabre Detective Stories Pit and Pendulum
Fall of House of Usher
Black Cat
Telltale Heart
Cask of Amontillado
Masque of the Red Death
The Oval Portrait
Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Gold Bug

8. Death Baltimore, MD October 7, 1849 Stumbled into Bar Mysterious
Wearing another’s clothes
Disoriented
Taken to hospital
Died
Buried in unmarked grave
Mysterious

9. Baltimore Presbyterian Cemetery
Original Burial Spot
Memorial to Poe

10. Grave
Poe’s last words were: "Lord help my poor soul.“ He was buried in an unmarked grave.
In 1875 a new monument to Poe was erected.  Walt Whitman was present at the dedication ceremony and letters from Longfellow, Whittier and Tennyson were read out.
Several years later the remains of Virginia Clemm Poe (Poe's wife) were exhumed and brought from New York and added to those of Poe.

11. Gravestone Gravestone marks original site of Poe's unmarked grave.
Erected in 1913 by Orin C Painter but was not in the right place.
It was moved to its present  location in 1921.

12. The Poe Toaster Baltimore Presbyterian Churchyard
January 19 (birthday)
Mysterious visitor
More than one
Three red roses
Half-empty Cognac
Ended in 2009