Edgar Allan Poe„All religion, my friend, is

simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and

poetry.“

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

Who was Poe?• Poet• Inventor of detective and horror

stories

Childhood• Boston, 1809• Father left family• Mother dies • Was sent to fosters in Virginia

(Allans)

Poe serving the country• After unsuccesfull university life• Getting high rank • Foster sends him again to study US

Military academy• Poe and universities doesn´t do well

together

Using an imagination• After kicking out of USM academy• Setted off to Baltimore• Impossible to earn enough money at

these times• Altough people loved his stories, he

couldn´t live on with little money• 1835 getting job as an editor • Fired because of his drinking

13 and bride• He falled in love with pretty girl• She was 13 years old• The shock for Poe´s 19. century wasn

´t her age, but the fact, that she was his cousin… how hypocritical

• Marriage was happy, harmonic life

A curse of Poe• Tuberculosis• Due to this illness his mother died

and in 1847 dies his loving wife, Virginia

• The end of Poe´s satisfied life• Comeback to drinking

A stylish death• Poe died in 1849, on 3rd.of October• Mystery is, that he was found lying

on the street in foreign clothes without any marks of shoot, blood or poisoning

• Who was Reynolds??

Writtings• The Raven• Annabel Lee• The Black Cat and Other Stories• Message Found in a Bottle• The Devil in Belfry• The Lighthouse• Pit and the Pendulum• The Tell-Tale Heart

„Science hasn´ t yet taught us if madness is or isn´t the sublimity of

the intelligence.“

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