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And from reading some of his stuff, I'd say he probably used drugs too (look at how his characters act in Ligea and other works when depressed - drug use). As for his death.... it seeems that it has most commonly been attributed to alcohol ...
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Drug addict, alcoholic, suicidal, and insane; none of these ... The author of hailed literary works such as "The Raven," and the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," Edgar Allan Poe had many mental and personal problems throughout his life. His poems reflect his emotions toward the events of his life.
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Unfortunately, in his 1926 and 1934 biography Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, Hervey Allen mistakenly quoted Woodberry’s note ... Testifying for Poe, Freeman Hunt and Mordecai M. Noah stated that they “Never heard anything against him except that he is occasionally addicted to intoxication” (The Poe Log,
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www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poealchl.htm
www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poealchl.htm
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is best known as a literary figure, a writer of short stories and poetry, but a surprising amount of his thought was devoted to natural science, with which he seems to have had a love-hate relationship, as illustrated by his "Sonnet to Science"
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www.mathpages.com/home/kmath522/kmath522.htm
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having quarreled with his foster father (although he chose "Allan" as his middle name) over his gambling debts and refusal to study law, he then went to Boston, where, anonymously and at his own expense, he published Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827). He served in the U.S. Army under a false name (Edgar A.
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www.k12.hi.us/~comlit/content/poe.htm
www.k12.hi.us/~comlit/content/poe.htm
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Who2 Biography: Edgar Allan Poe, Writer ... Tormented by poverty, Poe watched his wife die of tuberculosis. He became more and more unstable, drinking and taking opium, at one point attempting suicide with the drug. He published a grandiose prose poem, "Eureka," which combined half-baked science and dubious cosmogony.
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www.answers.com/topic/edgar-allan-poe
www.answers.com/topic/edgar-allan-poe
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, with A Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and Notices of his Life and Genius by N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell, 4 volumes, edited by Griswold (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850-1856). ... Contrary to popular legend, Poe was neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict, though he did struggle...
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www.unet.brandeis.edu/~teuber/poebio.html
www.unet.brandeis.edu/~teuber/poebio.html
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or so I used to think, but every time I teach a Poe tale I hear students talk about what a drug-addled drunken psychopath he was. And since none of that is true, ol' Edgar does need an introduction. ... Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore...
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www.litgothic.com/Authors/poe.html
www.litgothic.com/Authors/poe.html
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Edgar Allan Poe is credited with the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. His literary criticism, as well as his stories and poems, have profoundly influenced literature. With "The Murders in the ... The most scandalous tales painted the picture of a pedophile, necrophiliac, alcoholic, and drug addict,
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www.darkecho.com/darkecho/archives/poe.html
www.darkecho.com/darkecho/archives/poe.html
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