Poe, Edgar Allan
author, poet, was born Jan. 19, 1809, in Boston, Mass.
At nineteen he published his first volume, Tamerlane, and Other Poems. He led a wandering, dissipated life, editing at various times Graham's Magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger, and other periodicals, and died of delirium tremens in Baltimore. Among his prose tales, The Gold Bug; The Fall of the House of Usher; and Ligeia, are especially characteristic of his genius, while such poems as The Bells, The Raven, Annabel Lee, display wonderful melody and perfect mastery of metre. Beside Tamerlane, his writings include, The Conchologist's First Book; Eureka, a Prose Poem; The Raven, and Other Poems; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. The best edition of Poe is that edited by E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodbury, in ten volumes. He died Oct. 7, 1849, in Baltimore, Md.