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Edgar Allan Poe is Born
Poe was born to traveling actors, ELizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and David Poe Jr. He was the second born of three children. The oldest child being William Henry Leonard Poe, who also becomes a poet. Their grandfather immigrated from Ireland to America around 1750. -
Poe's Sister is born
Rosalie was born in Norfolk, VIrgina and was the last child of Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. David Poe Jr, around the time this child was concieved, abandoned the family. Therefore creating suspsion that he was not the biological father. Rumor went around that John Howard Payne, a prominent acter of the time, was the father -
Poe's Parents Die
Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. a couple days later David Poe also dies of tuberculosis also.Henry goes to live with his paternal grandparents. A Richmond couple, John and Frances Allan, take in Edgar as a foster child. Rosalie is taken in by another Richmond family -
Poe Writes His First Poem
Has a 15 year old he wrote his first poem called "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."By this time he had already returned from England and is back in Richmond, Virginia -
Poe enlst in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first is publishd
Poe enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Poe. His first book was a poetry collection called Tamerlane and Other Poems following the inlisting. The author is listed only as A Bostonian. -
Poe's older brother dies
Edgar's older brother Henry dies of either tuberculosis or cholera at the age of 27. He was a sailor and sailed around the world by sea before returning to Virgina. Once back he became a poet and publshed a book. One of his works was The Pirate -
Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virgina Clemm
SThe couple married when Poe was 27. they were cousins, but some biographers have suggested that the couple's relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife. -
Poe writes his first novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
This is the only complete novel written by Poe. The work is about the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Good and bad thongs happen to Pym, like shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. -
Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.It was published by the Philadelphia firm Lea & Blanchard and released in two volumes. The publisher was willing to print the anthology based on the recent success of Poe's story "The Fall of the House of Usher." -
Poe's wife Virginia dies of tubercolosis at their home in Bronx
Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx. Poe has been so despondent during the final months of her illness that friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism. -
Poe publishes the poem, The Raven
the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student,is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. -
Edgar Allen Poe Dies
After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
