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**﻿Edgar Allan Poe** ( January 19, 1809- October 7, 1849)
.......... Edgar Allan Poe was originally born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother passed away and his father left when Poe was very young. He was raised by John and Frances Allan, his foster family, in Richmond, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia, but he was not able to complete his degree due to financial issues. Poe also enlisted in the army and attended West Point where he was unsuccessful as an officer's cadet. In 1835 he married his thirteen year old cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm, who later passed way from tuberculosis in 1847. In 1845 Poe published his poem "The Raven" which was a huge success for him. Poe reportedly suffered from depression and alcoholism for much of his life, but when he died at the age of 40 it was deemed mysterious. The death of Edgar Allan Poe has been attributed to numerous things such as alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. .......... Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic. He is also considered to have contributed to the American Romantic Movement. He is credited with being one of the first to write horror fiction because he explored the darker side of the human mind through his work. Poe was also one of the forerunners of the short story and the detective-fiction genre. .......... "Annabel Lee" was Edgar Allan Poe's final poem to be completed. The poem was written in 1849, but it was not published until after Poe's death that same year. Like some of Poe's other poems "Annabel Lee" explores the death of a beautiful woman. There has been much debate about whom "Annabel Lee" was inspired from, but the general consensus has been Poe's wife Virginia Clemm.

........................... Original manuscript – //In her tomb by the side of the sea// ........................... Alternative version – //In her tomb by the sounding sea//
 * "There is debate on the last line of the poem. The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, Maryland has identified 11 different versions of the poem that were published between 1849 and 1850. However, the biggest variation is in the final line" (Wikipedia.org) :

Other poems by Edgar Allan Poe:
 * A Dream
 * A Dream Within a Dream
 * "Alone"
 * Dream-Land
 * Eldorado
 * Fairy-Land
 * For Annie
 * Israfel
 * Romance
 * Sonnet-To Science
 * Spirits of the Dead
 * The Conqueror Worm
 * The Haunted Palace
 * The Raven
 * The Sleeper
 * The Valley of Unrest
 * To Helen
 * To One in Paradise