Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe

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20). At 15 Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen.
Poe was then reviewed by the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe's
grandfather General Poe is where Poe most likely got his military influence
from.
In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted
to become a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct"
(Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University
of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students
threw bottles and bricks at the professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen
he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was
struck on the head with a stone and then pulled out a gun and killed his
attacker(Moldavia).
By the end of the year Poe had started to develop gambling debts.
Poe blamed his gambling debts on John Allen saying that he did not provide
enough for him to live on. Therefore gambling was the only way to survive.
I think that it would ...

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also wrote his third book Poems by Edgar A. Poe with
financial help from his friends at Westpoint. In 1832 Poe won a contest
with "AMS found in a bottle". Then in 1836 Poe married his cousin Virginia
Clem whom Poe had bean living with. Virginia was only thirteen when Poe
married Virginia. Shortly after Poe had married Virginia she contracted
the deadly disease tuberculosis. Virginia then died ten years later.
With the death of Poe's wife Poe became very depressed. Poe then
became addicted to many drugs, mainly opium and laudanum. It is also
reported that he used morphine (Mankowitz 259,729). It is said that Poe
used these drugs and drank so much because his nervous system was ...

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