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Jordon Rosier
The Riverwood Times
October 8, 1849² pare
Yesterday, Edgar Allan nts
Poe was found at 5:00 both died in the year
am, dead in the of 1811 of
Washington College tuberculosis. With the
Hospital, in loss of their parents,
Baltimore, Maryland. the children went
Motives as to why he their divided ways,
died are unknown, but and each adopted, or
we¶ve received word taken in, by different
that he was found families, never again
feverish on the to see each other.
streets, and in need Edgar was informally
of medical attention. adopted by John Allan,
After the word went a Scotch merchant.
around, many of his
readers were in As he lived with the
grieving horror. Allan family, he
attended schools such
Poe was born on as Stoke Newington in
January 19, 1809, in England, where he was
Boston, Massachusetts. a studious, bright
Out of three children, student. When it was
he was the second time for college, he
child, birthed by two returned to America,
actors, David Poe, and and attended the
Elizabeth Hopkins. His University of
±irginia. By this
time, his life was As we deal with his
dreary, much like his death, we must
work. John Allan would remember that his work
not allow Edgar to still lives with us.
return home after his
winter term during "There are two bodies
college. ² the rudimental and
the complete ;
Many of Poe¶s writing corresponding with
were dark and creepy the two conditions of
short stories, such the worm and the
as: ³The Fall of the butterfly. What we
House of Usher´, ³The call "death," is but
Tell-Tale Heart´, and the painful
his most popular, ³The metamorphosis. Our
Raven´. As his life present incarnation
was filled with may is progressive,
tragedies, his preparatory,
sadistic nature temporary. Our future
greatly influenced his is perfected,
works, which gave his ultimate, immortal.
stories a more The ultimate life is
personal touch, easily the full design."
making him one of the - from s
 
most influential
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poets, and authors to
have ever lived.
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