Edgar-Allan-Poe生平简介.ppt

1、,Edgar Allan Poe,Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story

2、and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.,1809,1810,His father David Poe Jr. died,His mother Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died. Edgar was taken into the home of a Richmond merchant John Allan.,Edgar Alla

3、n Poe was born,1811,1815-1819,He attended Manor School at Stoke Newington.,1820-1825,He wrote several poems when he was a student. Later it becomes the setting for his story William Wilson.,1826-1827,1832-1833,1830,1828-1829,He was promoted in the US army and got the position of Master Sergeant.,Poe

4、 entered West Point. He was dishonorably discharged next year, for intentional neglect of his duties,Poe attended the University of Virginia, but was expelled for not paying his gambling debts. Poe composed some tales, but little is known of his apprentice works. Poe joined the U.S. Army as a common

5、 soldier under assumed name, Edgar A. Perry.,Poe lived in Baltimore with his fathers sister Mrs. Maria Clemm and taught his sister. When he won a contest with his story “Ms. Found in a Bottle”, he got a job as an editor with the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.,1836,1837,1842,1849,Poe died a

6、t the age of 40 in Baltimore. The cause of his death is undetermined.,Virginia busted a blood vessel and died,He quit his job of Messenger, partly because he felt his salary was too low. With his family he set out to try luck in New York and Philadelphia.,Poe married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia

7、Clemm.,marriage,Elmira Roysterhis first fiance Virginia his only wife in his life span Nancy Richmond -girlfriend Sarah Helen Whitman - his second fiance,In 1826 Poe left Richmond to attend the University of Virginia, where he accumulated considerable debt. The miserly Allan had sent Poe to college

8、with less than a third of the money he needed, and Poe soon took up gambling to raise money to pay his expenses. By the end of his first term Poe was so desperately poor that he burned his furniture to keep warm. Humiliated by his poverty and furious with Allan for not providing enough funds in the

9、first place, Poe returned to Richmond and visited the home of his Elmira Royster, only to discover that she had become engaged to another man.,After only eight months , he was expelled by the West Point . Broke and alone, Poe turned to Baltimore to live with his fathers sister Maria Clemm, and her d

10、aughter Virginia . At the very beginning, Virginia first acted as a courier to carry letters to Poes lady loves but soon became the object of his desire. At the age of twenty-seven, Poe brought Maria and Virginia to Richmond and married Virginia, who was only 13 years old. The marriage proved a happ

11、y one, and the family is said to have enjoyed singing together at night. Virginia expressed her devotion to her husband in a Valentine poem now in the collection of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and Poe celebrated the joys of married life in his poem “Eulalie.”,In the face of poverty Poe was still a

12、ble to find solace at home with his wife and mother-in-law, but tragedy struck in 1842 when Poes wife contracted tuberculosis, the disease that had already claimed Poes mother, brother, and foster mother. In the winter of 1847 that Virginia died at the age of twenty-four, In a tiny cottage in the co

13、untry .Poe was devastated, and was unable to write for months.,Poe attempted to marry her, but because of his excessive drinking ,the engagement only lasted about one month.,While on lecture tour in Lowell, Massachusetts, Poe met and befriended Nancy Richmond. His idealized and platonic love of her

14、inspired some of his greatest poetry, including “For Annie.” But she remained married and unattainable, so they had no ending.,After several romances listed above, in Richmond he found his first fiance Elmira Royster Shelton was now a widow, so he began to court her again, and planned on marriage. On the trip North to pick up his Aunt