کتاب the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe WordsworthOriginal Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th 1809 in Boston Massachusets Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother he was taken into the foster care of John Allan a Virginia tobacco farmer Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe he distinguished himself at the University of Virginia but was equally adept at collecting debts from his assiduous gambling His stepfathers disapproval shattered their fragile relationship and Poe left home to seek his fortune  In 1836 he married his cousin Virginia but despite his prolific activities  journalism poetry lecturing short stories publishing criticism and experimentation with fictional genres including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1841  he received scant recognition for his efforts until the publication of The Raven in 1845 The poems instant popularity gave him a new visibility in literary circles but his personal situation remained desperate poverty illness drink and the physical decline and ultimate death of Virginia in 1847 led to his untimely and premature decline In 1849 he was found sick injured and semiconscious in a Baltimore tavern Taken to hospital he lingered on for four days but never recovered and on October 7th Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40  He was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters  a genius who thanks to his dire reputation was tragically misunderstood during his lifetime It was not until Baudelaire enthusiastically translated his work that he found a wider audience in Europe and became not only an enormous influence on modern French literature but also on the acclaimed work of writers such as Dostoevsky Conan Doyle and Jules Verne  This volume not only includes Poes most wellknown works but also over 50 of his poems