Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (Boston, January 19, 1809 - Baltimore, October 7, 1849) was a writer, poet, critic and journalist romantic U.S., widely recognized as one of the masters of the universal story short, which was one of the early practitioners in the country. It was renovated in the Gothic novel, remembered especially for his tales of terror. Considered the inventor of the detective story, also contributed with several works to the emerging genre of science fiction. On the other hand, was the first writer who attempted to write his modus vivendi, which had disastrous consequences for him. Edgar Poe was christened in Boston, Massachusetts, and his parents died when he was a child. He was picked up by a wealthy marriage of Richmond, Virginia, John and Frances Allan, but was never officially adopted. He spent one academic year at the University of Virginia and later enlisted, also briefly, in the army. Their relations with Allan broke at that time, due to constant disagreements with his stepfather, who often ignored his pleas for help and ended up destitute. His literary career began with a book of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). For economic reasons, soon directed its efforts to prose, writing short stories and literary criticism in some newspapers of the time, came to acquire a certain notoriety for his caustic style and elegance. Due to his work, lived in several cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. In Baltimore, in 1835, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, which the then 13 years old. In January 1845, published a poem that would make him famous: "The Raven." His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. The true story of the writer, to edit their own newspaper (which was renamed The Stylus), never met. He died on October 7, 1849, in Baltimore City, when only 40 years old. The exact cause of his death were never clarified. Was attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart failure, anger, suicide, tuberculosis and other causes. The figure of the writer, as his work profoundly influenced the literature of his country and can say that around the world. Exerted great influence on the French symbolist literature, and through it, and surrealism, but his imprint comes much further: they are all his debtors ghost Victorian literature and, to a greater or lesser extent, authors as varied and important as Charles Baudelaire, Fedor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Mann, Jorge Luis Borges, Clemente Palma, Julio Cortázar, and so on. The Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío devoted an essay in his book The rare. Poe also made inroads in fields as diverse as cosmology, cryptography and mesmerism. His work has been assimilated by popular culture through literature, music, both modern and classic films (eg, the many adaptations of his stories made by U.S. director Roger Corman), comic books, painting ( several works of Gustave Doré, v. gr.) and television (hundreds of adjustments, such as Spanish for Series Histories for not sleeping). (See Impact of Edgar Allan Poe.) In one of his letters, he wrote: My life has been whim, impulse, passion, desire for solitude, a mockery of the things of this world, an honest desire for the future.