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E.A.Poe- Biography
Title: E.A.Poe- Biography
Category: Literature
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E.A.Poe- Biography
The life of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actor Eliza Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.. His father left before he was born and his mother died when he was only three, so Poe was taken into the home of John Allan, a successful merchant in Richmond, Virginia and baptized Edgar Allan Poe. (While his middle name is frequently misspelt as 'Allen', Poe himself used 'Allan'). After attending …showed first 75 words of 3272 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3272 total…in honor of his best known tale. The team even created three "winged" mascots - naturally they named them Edgar, Allan, and Poe.
Poe's image, with his weary expression, piercing eyes and tangled hair (see the daguerrotype above), has become a cultural icon for the troubled genius. His face adorns the bottlecaps of Raven Beer, the covers of numerous books on American literatue as a whole, and is often stereotyped in cartoons as "the creepy guy".
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