Edgar was an American author, poet, editor and a literary critic. He was born in January 1809 and died on October 1849. His reputation lays on his ability, his mystery and the macabre. He was one the earliest American short stories practitioners and also is attributed to the invention of the detective fiction's genre. Apart from that he contributed greatly to the present science genre fiction. He is also known as the first American, who based and tried to implement writing as his sole source of income. He was born in Boston and was an orphan at the age of 1 year. He was later adopted and supported by a family that was based in Richmond's, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia for only one semester but did not go further due to lack of money (Haggard, 2007). He later joined the army, and it was during this time that the idea of poem writing came to him and wrote a collection of poems. He failed as a cadet officer at the west point and at that time he declared to be a poet and writer. He spent several years doing literary journals and periodicals. His works was unique and established his style of literary criticism. The choice of this career resulted in a lot of traveling to various cities. He married his cousin in 1835. Unfortunately, his wife died due to tuberculosis.
Poe had a unique way of capturing the public imagination as his poems were unique. The poem addressed issues that created an interesting and motivating actualization concept among the readers. Poe is characterized to moody, mysterious in both his writing and as his name suggested. It was also the reason his work was unique and attributed to the success and interesting to most of the people. He had the ability to integrate varying character in his writing and had a unique set of writing skills. His first book was known as the Tamerlane, and he published it while he was 18 years of age. It was later then that he joined the United States Army. The death of Frances Allan gave him a chance to reconcile briefly with Allan, who helped him to join west point military academy (Neufeld, 2013). Before joining the Academy, Poe published another volume of poetry. While he was in the academy, he got the news that Allan had married again. The news disappointed him much because Allan had not told him and did not invite him to the ceremony. He wrote to him detailing all the wrongs that Allan had committed to him, and later on he left the Academy for God and declared that he was to concentrate on his writing works. One of the aspects of his life that is that he was very broke and very poor. After leaving the academy he went to Baltimore and called out for his cousins, however, life proved to be a bit hard there since some of the cousins were a problem.
At Baltimore Poe also published stories that address various issue in life. He mostly used his life experiences as an example that led to the growth of the people who were interested in reading his stories. One of his stories won a contest that was sponsored by the Saturday visitor. It was a very critical and essential moment of life; it has been established that it created a great chance for Poe and his works. In that, n he established connections that were important to the conducting of his job and writing activities. The connections enabled him to publish more stories that gained a lot of popularity among the people of Richmond. His continued writing led to the establishment of the editorial position in the Southern literary messenger In Richmond. Theo magazine was a significant step in his writing; it established a life of a magazine writer for Poe. It took him only a year to make the magazine as the most popular. His writings at this level involved sensational stories and scathing book reviews (Bloom, 2011). It has been established that his stories applied the sensational style of writing. The style is the one that involved the outer invoking the feelings of the audience and the readers capturing their feelings into imagining his fictions and the way the way they could have been applied in real life situation. The other style of his writing in the book review entailed the criticism of his fellow authors. He criticized the other author's works. His style made him famous in the course of his writing as it was viewed that he was brave. In addition the famous situation that he established through criticism interested many people to be willing to learn his activities and to write. The aim of most of the readers is to identify how his work would be considering how he criticized other author's works
As identified, he used the style of critical analysis in his writing. He established a reputation for the not fearing critic writing. He attacked the author's works and insulted the authors of the northern literary. It could be said that Poe was a strategic person and who applied unique methods to establish himself and his works unlikely to any other members of the society. It was his style to target the most famous writers in the country. It was a unique style of writing that created attention to his life character and works. He married at the age of 27 and his marriage with Virginia proved to be very effective. It has been identified that he wrote an expression of the joy of his marriage in the poem "Eulalie" (Baudelaire, 2007). His wife also was devoted to the marriage and his husband; she also wrote a valentine poem to him in expressing of her joy in the marriage. There were two major issues that led to the resignation of Poe as the editorial manager. They were the low pay and the lack of the editorial control in the messenger. After the resignation, Poe relocated to New York. It was not easy to get a job at that level and stage due to the life processes and activities that were taking place and mostly the financial and economic crisis. He however, secured a job and published his only novel known as the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. He only stayed in New York for a year and later moved to Philadelphia. Philadelphia offered him several magazine jobs as he wrote several magazines. Some of the magazines he worked for included the Burton's and the Grahams magazines. The contrary issue about his life is that at this level his fame had grown to a great extent but unfortunately he did not have much as his income.
Poe was barely making a living even though he had grown very famous. However, the poverty was it was okay with him and his family. His wife and the mother in law were very supporting to him and provided him with great love, joy, and care. It happened to be a difficult situation in life In 1942 when tuberculosis attacked his wife. It was the same disease that had claimed his mother, brother and foster mother. It formed the worst times of his life as it was threatening to him to find his wife such as she was in consideration of the poverty of his life. He was always searching for a better opportunity in the life where he would change his life. In 1944, he moved back to the New York where he entered in a unique way. He developed a story that was known as y of a balloon trip across the ocean, and it caused a sensation (Mansfield, 2004). The public was interested and thrilled to read the story due to its nature and way that people had to agree that the story was true. It was until later that Poe admitted that the story was not true and that Poe had fooled the people. As discussed, Poe had the unique set of skill of creating a real life situation in his writing and a skill that enabled him to win a lot of readers of his materials. His fictions had the aspect of possibility, and it is the reason people thought that they might have been true. It was until later that he admitted having fooled the people. As it can be seen, Poe had a difficult life from birth to his old age. However, his marriage and the mother in law are the things that provided him with the ultimate joy that he did not get anywhere else. His life was a struggle beside him being very famous and also beside has been adopted by a rich man. And to a child that Poe had never met.
In January 1945 he published the raven. At this time, he had grown more famous and had the power and the capability to address a large crowd and also demanded better pay for his works. In all the other the things he had, it has been identified that his life was at times very difficult since he was poor. The money he earned was not enough to provide him with the goods and services and to meet the other needs in life. However, 1845 proved a bit to be a year of change since he was able to publish two books that year. In addition, he in a way was able to live his dream that was to own a magazine. In that, he bought out the owners of the Broadway Journal; it was a great achievement and the one he had been admiring in his life (Eichenberg, 2014). The two reasons why he was interested in a personal magazine was due to make more money and also to exercise total freedom in the production of the materials. However, things in the life did not turn as expected and in that they were not to the favor and way that he would have wished them to be and create a good environment for him. It was alleged that there were issues in his life that disorientated his position and led to the tarnishing of his dream. The continued and deteriorating health conditions of his and the failure of the venture were the two main reasons that his problems increased (Poe, 2014). I t is also alleged that Poe had a relationship with a married woman that was a big issue in his reputation and consideration his famous position and life. The identified issue that he was facing made him move out of the city in 1846. He relocated to a tiny cottage that was still in the county, and here he lived a quite life. In the course of his stay, it is when his wife died at the age of 24. The death of his wife was that brought him down, and diver stated him much more than anything else that had happened in his life. It is said that he was unable o write for months. Oat of his critics concentrated on expressing that Poe was going to be dead soon.
According to the records, it could be identified his critics were right about the future of Poe. It is because he only lived for two years after the death of his wife. The two years he lived, he spent them more on traveling from one city to another. The activities carried out in the course of his traveling entailed giving lectures and finding support for his proposal of the magazine project that was known as the stylus. It is unidentified that Poe met Nancy Richmond who he loved and the love for motivated him to write some of the greatest poems. However, she was married and unattainable. His attempt to Mary Sarah Helen failed, and the engagement lasted for a month. As identified, Poe spent the last two years of his life traveling. On his way to Philadelphia, he stopped to Baltimore where it is said that he disappeared for five days. According to Sharp, (2011) Poe was found in a room in a public house that was being used in the polling place for inflation during that time. It was written that Poe spent the last days of life far away from home and the people who surrounded him at those times were strangers. His mother in law and the people who were close to he heard of his death after reading the newspaper. Poe died on s October 7, 1849 at the age of forty, but the exact course of his death was nt known. It is identified that there could have been courses or there were a list of possible courses of his death. Different people had different believed in his death as either of the following. It was said that his death could have been caused by tuberculosis, suicide, rabies, cholera, heart disease, drugs, and alcohol. However, there was no publication that provided an elaboration or a clear course of his death.
In conclusion, Poe was a unique man who lived a difficult life at one end and a simple and happy life at the other end. Despite all his achievements, he died a poor man and a rich man at the same time. It could be elaborated in the following manner. S after his death, there were scholars who tried to avenge for the critics he had done to them as they wrote critics about his life. Some described him as a madman who had no morals, drunkard, and a womanizer among other negatives. The motives of his criticizers were to withdraw the public attention on him and more so to bury his works and writings. However, the critics worked the other way round since they increased the people attention and interest on the Edgar Poe life and his works. His workings were purchased more than any authors. His books attained higher sales than they ever did while he was a life that could be attributed to why he died a rich man. He left a strong reputation both in his writing and his way of life which was different from any other author. His reputation is still held today in relation to his work. In addition, most of the works is also used in the present as a reference for criticism.
References
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Neufeld, J. (2013). Edgar Allan. New York: S.G. Phillips.
Poe, E. A. (2014). Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Hoboken, N.J: BiblioBytes.
Sharp, W., & In Starrett, V. (2011). Tales of mystery and imagination. New York: Heritage Press.
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