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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author born in 1809 who is considered the founder of both the detective and horror genres. He was orphaned as a child and was taken in by the Allan family. He struggled with alcoholism and debt throughout his life. Some of his most famous literary works include The Raven, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Fall of the House of Usher, known for incorporating horror elements and themes of death and the macabre. He is renowned for pioneering new literary forms and techniques in his poems, short stories, and literary criticism that influenced later authors in various genres.

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author born in 1809 who is considered the founder of both the detective and horror genres. He was orphaned as a child and was taken in by the Allan family. He struggled with alcoholism and debt throughout his life. Some of his most famous literary works include The Raven, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Fall of the House of Usher, known for incorporating horror elements and themes of death and the macabre. He is renowned for pioneering new literary forms and techniques in his poems, short stories, and literary criticism that influenced later authors in various genres.

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    Edgar Allan Poe was an American author born in 1809 who is considered the founder of both the detective and horror genres. He was orphaned as a child and was taken in by the Allan family. He struggled with alcoholism and debt throughout his life. Some of his most famous literary works include The Raven, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Fall of the House of Usher, known for incorporating horror elements and themes of death and the macabre. He is renowned for pioneering new literary forms and techniques in his poems, short stories, and literary criticism that influenced later authors in various genres.

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    Edgar

    Allan Poe

    author: František Štangl


    Autobiography
    - american romantic poet, novelist and literary
    theorist

    - he was born in 1809 and died in 1849

    - he is the founder of the detective and horror


    genre
    He was born to family of two actors. He spent time
    with two siblings in Boston (Massachusetts).

    His life

    His father was alcoholic and


    left his family in 1810. The mother
    died soon after.

    He became an orphan and stayed in Richmond. He


    was taken in by the Allan family. They lived for some
    time in Liverpool and then he spent time at a
    boarding school in Scotland and soon in London.
    In 1826 he studied at University of Virginia, where he began to have problems with alcohol
    and debts.

    When he had no money, he came into the West Point Military Academy. However, he was an
    undisciplined soldier and was released.

    His stepfather supported him, but eventually he began to argue with Edgar. So he went to his
    aunt. He married a fourteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
    How did Poe get into literature?
    Already in high school he was very interested in literature and history.

    At first he wanted to become famous as a poet, later he wrote short stories.

    After the death of his wife (Virginia - cousin), he wrote a poem about her (the
    name of the poem - Annabel Lee).

    He worked as a redactor and then


    he started using horror elements.
    The most famous literary works

    The Raven The Murders The Fall of the


    In The Rue House of Usher
    Morgue
    The Raven

    The man (narrator) remembers his dead girl Lenora. He


    tries to bring her back from the realm of the dead. At
    midnight he is startled by a mysterious raven who flies
    into his room. The narrator asks the bird if he will ever see
    his beloved Lenore again. The bird replies, "Nevermore."
    The man is shouting and throwing the raven out.

    Youtube video - The Raven (cartoon) -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLbe4JwE6-0

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