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Edgar Allan Poe And Alcohol

Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, was seventeen years old when accepted into University of Virginia. First year he managed to gamble all his scholarship money. It was also reported that Edgar owed around $2500 to local gamblers. Gambling addiction led to alcoholism, which is still debated by many Poe's followers. However, it was reported by school systems that Edgar showed up in class drunk even during the examinations. The interesting fact is that Edgar Allan Poe finished with highest grades in his class and became best student of his generation. When he was 27 years old Poe married 13 year old Virginia Eliza Clemm. Some say that their relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife. To all witnesses Poe loved his wife very dearly. He wrote several poems where he shows his love for her and the pain she had to go through when diagnosed with tuberculosis ("Annabel Lee"). Virginia did not survive this deadly disease and her monument is erected in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Perhaps if you refrained from your silly chatter and useless folly of lies. please research me before making crude commentary, as things were much different in my time than in yours. Nevermore shall I comment as a warning, as bad things may happen to you next time you post without thinking.

E. A. Poe at at 06:12PM, Jan 17th 2012.

Edgar Allan Poe ; a beautiful poet , who did not realise his full potential . To be a poet ; you also have to a mathematical brain programmed with rhythm . God gave us many talents ; too bad Edgar didnt have enough logic to work out what was his !!! Music ; engineering , sports etc... all could have been his because of the gift of poetry !! SAD :(

Matt personal trainer at at 05:48AM, Dec 25th 2011.

Thanks for sharing, google helps a lot with this kind of information.

kall at at 05:59PM, Dec 9th 2011.

GROW UPP PPL! JESUS! AND WTF WATCH UR LANGUAGE! dip****! god!

ckickie dee at at 08:31AM, Nov 30th 2011.

Omfg... You people are just pathetic. He didn't rape the girl. Yes, she was young; yes, she was his cousin. That, by absolutely no means, makes him a "rapist". This all took place well over a century ago. Standards back then and the standards today are obviously polar opposites. With that said, no one really knows what happened between them. Anywho, who are we to be judging him? If they loved each other that much, it shouldn't matter to anyone. He was one hell of a poet and an author. No matter what you ignorant fools say, that fact will never change. Get over yourselves and stop thinking you know more than everyone else. It's obnoxious and childish.

Alex at at 09:59PM, May 7th 2011.

Im Doinn A Essayy On Him He ' s Verry Interestingg :/

Daisyy . at at 11:09AM, Apr 11th 2011.

Ughhhh .

diodffbg at at 11:07AM, Apr 11th 2011.

keke wrote: #
people who blog have no life. get one.

u are the worlds greatest example of someone who doesnt have a life. i thank you for ur time.

nomnomnom at at 09:57AM, Mar 30th 2011.

keke wrote: #
people who blog have no life. get one.

Bbob Poe wrote: #
Edgar Allen Poe is a smart guy, but why did he rape his own prima (spanish for cousin thats female)? What a [beeping] rapist!

dude why not. who knows, she might be like super hot and maybe the only girl for miles he can do

nomnomnom at at 09:56AM, Mar 30th 2011.

people who blog have no life. get one.

keke at at 09:02PM, Mar 29th 2011.

You're all pathetic honestly this guy has been dead for over ten years, he doesn't no ANY of you nor does he care about any of you, so just stop wasting your time and stfu.

Nicole at at 10:09AM, Mar 21st 2011.

I love E.A.P. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Rooby Jean at at 04:13PM, Mar 9th 2011.

Ok get this it didnt say any thing about the chick was his cousin it said that their relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife. Really Read Next Time.

Me Myself and Time at at 08:21AM, Feb 1st 2011.

wow he married his own prima(cousin) is the most inmense, huge, beautiful thing that LOVE made him to do:)

hugo4huge at at 07:53PM, Jan 30th 2011.

Okay, yeah i have to write an essay on this guy and its making
me mad, there is barley anything about this guy every web repeats themselfs i need more infor.
And for all you others
why fight and argue over somthing so dumb and over the internet really?
how old are we?

Jacinda at at 12:01PM, Jan 27th 2011.

Person below me.
Well if you're going to be grammar police and call out someone for not spelling cousin right. Why don't you spell an easier word, is, right. Dumb ****, if you're going to rip on someone for something like that at least spell check your ****.

dkaid at at 07:30PM, Dec 23rd 2010.

Okay, I'm not the type of person to comment on retarded things like this. Because frankly, I do not care about any of this. BUT because I'm forced to write a paper on this guy that I've never heard of until now.. I'm going to put in my opinion like the rest of you faggots. So this is what I have to say.. Kid below me, you can't even spell cousin.. so why even comment on this poor guy being incest? HE ID DEAD WHY DOES ANY OF THIS MATTER? oh WAIT A MINUTE! It doesn't. You're all really big dumb asses for caring about any of this.

MorganS at at 01:59AM, Dec 6th 2010.

edgar allan poe is nasty he married his cosuin

shorty at at 09:45PM, Dec 5th 2010.

omg people. yes he married his cousin but it wasnt by force and he didnt rape her. dont be stupid and dont post stuff you dont know. oh and nooooo he did not have a third nipple. thats just retarded. you guys that are saying like a guy that likes another guy is GAY. thats really judgemental and stupid. bye :)

Julianne at at 01:58PM, Nov 28th 2010.

Back then getting married at a young age was common also they lied about her age. They claimed she was 21. We also have to consider he didn't have much money and neither did his cousin and her mom. He might have married her to help them financially (even though he had no money). They could have fallen in love later. There is also speculation that they did love each other but as siblings and not a married couple. so yes marrying his 13 yr old cousin is weird and gross by todays standards but we don't know the truth and never will. I also don't believe that it should affect how a person feels about his writing. He was a great writer.

beth at at 12:07AM, Nov 22nd 2010.

Well i mean today if a 13 year old married a 27 it would be sick, but back then it was ok and normal to marry like that!!!!!!!!!:)

Erica at at 07:20PM, Nov 18th 2010.

this was helpful a little bit

kendra couch at at 11:25AM, Nov 16th 2010.

I don't see any need for anyone to make nasty comments about Edgar, he was ahmazing(;

Erykah at at 06:38PM, Nov 14th 2010.

This helped me with homework but doent change the fact that he is weird

joe at at 03:34PM, Nov 14th 2010.

For all sick people who think that his marriage to a 13 years old girl is sick, that's right she was very young but at least he married her legally and didn't do any thing bad to her. you don't know what their real feelings were but it's shown through his amazing poems how much he loved her and he did the right thing by ending their beautiful relationship with marriage. That's what is called "REAL LOVE".

thank you for posting these amazing facts, they are interesting Poe really suffered in his life but still did great job to keep his name shining and alive.

Poe's faithful fan at at 05:13AM, Nov 14th 2010.

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