Poe
EDGAR ALLAN, an American poet and story-writer; born in Boston, Jan. 19, 1809. Left an orphan early, he was adopted by John Allan, of Richmond, Va., and at the age of 19 left this home and published his first volume of verse at Boston. He was a cadet at POE POETRY the United States Military Academy, tion is the one edited by E. C. Stedman 1830-1831; and subsequently was edi- and G. E. Woo Toodberry (10 vols., Chicago, tor of the "Southern Literary Messen- 1830-1831; and subsequently was edi- Md., Oct. 7, 1849. Literary Messen- 1894-1895). Poe died in Baltimore, ger," 1835-1837; of the "Gentleman's Md., Oct. 7, 1849.
Magazine," 1839-1840; of "Graham's Magazine," 1841-1842; and of the "Broadway Journal," 1845. He also contributed to other periodicals. He projected a magazine to be called "Lit- EDGAR ALLAN POE erary America," and to aid it, lectured in New York City and through the South, 1848-1849. A complete list of his works in book form includes: "Tamerlane and Other Poems" (Boston, 1827) ; "Al Aar- , 1827); "Al Aaraf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems" (Baltimore, 1829) ; "Poems" (2d ed., including many poems now first published, New York, 1831). "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket" (New York, 1838) ; "The Conchologist's First Book" (Philadelphia, 1839) ; "Tales of the Gro- ); "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" (Philadelphia, 1840) "The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe" (Philadelphia, 1843); "The Raven and Other Poems" (New York, Other Poems" (N (New York, 1845) ; "Mesmerism: in Articulo Mortis" (London, 1846) ; "Eureka, a Prose Poem" (New York, 1848). After his death there were republished "The Liberati:
Some Honest Opinions about Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Words of Personality," etc., edited by R. W. Griswold (New York, 1850); "Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor; and Poems," edited by Henry Vizetelly (London, 1852). The definitive edi-