With an air of objectivity and spontaneity, his productions are closely dependent on his own powers of imagination and an elaborate technique. It owes much also to his own feverish dreams, to which he applied a rare faculty of shaping plausible fabrics out of impalpable materials. Poe’s work owes much to the concern of Romanticism with the occult and the satanic. Poe stated that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.” Poe supported affective experience or the old practice of judging a poem by the emotional effect that it produces in the reader. He was buried in Westminster Presbyterian churchyard in Baltimore. 7, 1849 before he could marry Elmira Royster. The indulgence proved fatal, for Poe had a weak heart. There at a party, he began to drink Leavily. Poe had some forebodings of death when he left Richmond for Baltimore late in September. Shelton, and spent a happy summer with only one or two relapses. In 1849 he went south, had a wild spree in Philadelphia, but got safely to Richmond, where he finally became engaged to Elmira Royster, by then the widowed Mrs. Poe had close but platonic entanglements with Annie Richmond and with Sarah Anna Lewis, who helped him financially. In 1848 Poe went to Providence, R.I., to woo Sarah Helen Whitman, a poet.
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For the few remaining years of his life, he helped support himself by delivering a series of public lectures. His wife, Virginia, died in January 1847. In fact, Poe seems to have suffered from a physical ailment that rendered him so sensitive to alchohol that a single drink could induce drunkenness. Poe seems to have been an affectionate husband and son-in-law. Allan never treated Poe with sensitivity. Edgar was taken into the home of John Allan, a wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond at his wife’s request and gave him the middle name Allan as a baptismal name, though he never formally adopted him. The children were adopted by various families.
Shortly after his birth his father disappeared and his mother died on December 8, 1811, leaving three children orphans, when Poe was just two years of age. His father was irresponsible, rash, impetuous and addicted to drinking. Edgar Allan Poe was born as the son of the English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., an actor from Baltimore on Jan.
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