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    Edgar Allan Poe was a 19th century American author who pioneered the detective fiction genre. He was influenced by many traumatic events in his life, including the early deaths of his mother and wife. Women often featured prominently in his works as idealized figures. His relationship with his stepfather was strained and led to financial troubles for Poe. He struggled to maintain his career due to conflicts with publishers and his own erratic behavior, which was sometimes caused by alcoholism. Poe's works frequently dealt with themes of premature death and the afterlife, likely reflecting his own losses. To this day, he remains a popular and influential author.

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    Edgar Allan Poe was a 19th century American author who pioneered the detective fiction genre. He was influenced by many traumatic events in his life, including the early deaths of his mother and wife. Women often featured prominently in his works as idealized figures. His relationship with his stepfather was strained and led to financial troubles for Poe. He struggled to maintain his career due to conflicts with publishers and his own erratic behavior, which was sometimes caused by alcoholism. Poe's works frequently dealt with themes of premature death and the afterlife, likely reflecting his own losses. To this day, he remains a popular and influential author.

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    Edgar Allan Poe was a 19th century American author who pioneered the detective fiction genre. He was influenced by many traumatic events in his life, including the early deaths of his mother and wife. Women often featured prominently in his works as idealized figures. His relationship with his stepfather was strained and led to financial troubles for Poe. He struggled to maintain his career due to conflicts with publishers and his own erratic behavior, which was sometimes caused by alcoholism. Poe's works frequently dealt with themes of premature death and the afterlife, likely reflecting his own losses. To this day, he remains a popular and influential author.

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    Discussion Questions
    1. Had Poe possessed talent instead of genius, he could have been a moneymaking author, and written
    many more great poems than he has, but this genius also enables him to possess that talent.
    2. Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe both have conquered the horror genre, in different eras and writing
    styles, although Stephen King would not be nearly as successful if he lived in Poe’s era. Publishers at the
    time had wanted calmer stories, because horror stories were a rare success.

    3. Women in Poe’s life had always embodied angelic figures. His mother had died before he was even 3,
    and although he didn’t know her well, he felt her presence throughout his life. He believed that women
    should be respected, and he loved many women. His most prevalent love was his cousin Victoria, who
    often embodied the womanly figures in Poe’s poetry. The death of his loved ones led him to envision
    tuberculosis as the “red death”, which he later on used in his poetry. The death of Victoria was shown in
    The Raven, using Lenore as the name for Victoria. He dreamt of seeing her in Annabel Lee.

    4. Poe’s stepfather, John Allan, was a rough tobacco merchant, which didn’t mix well with Poe’s poetic
    and sensitive personality. He was having affairs with other women while his wife was dying of
    tuberculosis. After his stepfather sent him to the University of Virginia, Poe went into deep financial
    trouble and his stepfather refused to support him. This caused Poe to gamble away all of his money and
    go into deep debt, which led him to enroll in the army. Even to his death, John Allan threatened Poe and
    only left money to his illegitimate children.

    5. Poe struggled to maintain a career due to his arrogance. He instilled in job conflicts and literary
    arguments. His combative attitude embodied his frustration with John Allan, his stepfather. He was
    attempting to prove himself to his peers, just as he was to John Allan. He sabotaged his own successful
    efforts. His abandoned experiences created a pattern of masochism for himself.

    6. The many deaths in Poe’s life were evident in his poems. They often reference premature death and
    the yearning for a connection with the afterlife.

    7. Edgar Allan Poe brought about the first detective story, and they were a coping mechanism for Poe to
    not go mad. His stories were published before Sherlock Holmes, and his stories conveyed that the
    solution defies the impossible. He used modern physiological thinking to solve his mysteries.

    8. Poe’s harsh ties to tuberculosis was extremely evident in his era because people didn’t know the
    origin of the infection, how to cure it, or even any basic knowledge of how it works. Of course, now
    tuberculosis is a small threat due to the modern medicine and technology in our times. We have
    discovered its origin and have even developed a vaccine. Our advanced measures allow doctors to test
    for tuberculosis, enabling it to be stopped in its tracks.

    9. Poe began to drink when his cousin and love Victoria was going to move to another relative’s home,
    leaving Poe. He ruined a government job offer by showing up drunk to the interview. Poe drank, and
    thought people were after him.
    10. To this day, Poe remains popular. In his poetry, he looks beyond his own time and guesses what we’ll
    face in ours. He constructs an uncertain world, yearning for an afterlife, but is confronted by violence
    and cruelty.

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