1st batx ppt

2. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)

3. Childhood
• January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts
• Raised by John Allan
• Grammar school in Irvine(Scotland), boarding school in Chelsea, Reverend
John Bransby’s Manor House School at Stoke Newington.

4. Early life
• Army
• Several problems

5. Adult life

6. His works
Main tales
-Tales of the Grotesque and
Arabesque
-The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
-“The pit and the pendulum”
Poetry
-"The Raven."
-“The haunted palace”
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7. Why was he so important?
• Mystery and Macabre
• Short story
• The inventor of the detective fiction genre.
dgar Allan Poe House and Museum-
Baltimore, Maryland
-Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum-
Richmund, Virginia