Edgar Allan Poe: biography, complete work and analysis of O Corvo

Edgar Allan Poe was two major authors of North American literature and two great figures of thriller / crime literature.

Recognized especially his poem The raven (Or Corvo), Allan Poe deixou a beautiful legacy especially full of stories and poems.

Find the biography and the main works of the author.

What was Edgar Allan Poe?

Writer, poet, critic and editor: Edgar Allan Poe occupied all of these countries during his short life. Precursor of modern police romance, to his literary production of him, part of the great works of Western literature.

Nascimento

Born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, Edgar was the son of an English actress (Elizabeth Arnold Poe) as a Baltimore actor (David Poe Jr.). Both belong to a traveling theater company. Edgar tinha dois irmãos: Rosalie and William.

Your first years of life are tragic: o pai faleceu - ou abandonou a família (no one knows exactly) - When the rapacious still was small and Edgar lost me in 1811, a victim of tuberculosis, when he was barely three years.

O menino was raised to the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish businessman / farmer engaged in tobacco trade, and his wife Frances. I am two additive countries that Edgar received or nicknamed Allan.

Main events

Encouraged by his additive family, Edgar was raised to Scotland and to England where he was raised between 1815 and 1820. The writer was very influenced by John to put aside his literary vocation to dedicate himself to business.

In 1826 he attended the Universidade da Virginia and stayed for a year to please or patronize. On campus he got involved in a series of conflicts, started to develop problems with drugs, alcohol and gambling. He split up, and John refused to pay the split.

No year to follow or rapacious I was expelled from home. Not the same as he entered the US Army.

For a lifetime he has problems like alcoholism and play. He also softened with a series of depression crises and tried to commit suicide some times.

Literary career

In 1827, in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe began to publish poems and released his first book with his own resources (Tamerlane and Other Poems).

Or second book (Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems), a publication of poems, was launched in 1829.

You must edit or your third party will free him to dedicate himself to the life of a writer in full time. He went through a life of fragile health and struggling with financial problems.

Poe received some money by publishing poems and periodical texts in journals and magazines and working as a critic, editor and journal editor.

Pessoal life

Edgar made a new appearance from Sarah Elmira Royster, but the relationship ended with Sarah quickly made a new person from another person, or that Edgar returned to Boston.

Between 1831 and 1835 the writer lived with a paternal love (Elizabeth Poe), aunt Maria Clemm and a cousin, Virginia. The author disappeared as a young cousin and the two of you were married in 1836, when Virginia had barely 13 years of age.

When he reached 24 years of age, a Poe woman died during the winter with tuberculosis. Convém to remember that the same doença also had thrown the life of the writer.

Depois da morte de Virginia, Edgar asked Sarah Whitman in marriage, depois was enchanted by Annie Richmond and later by Sarah Shelton.

Death

He died a writer on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. His death is wrapped in mystery at the days of the leaf.

No day 3 of October Edgar was found very drunk and drunk in Baltimore. He was admitted to Washington College Hospital for four days.

No one knows for sure because of her death: there are rumors that she was a victim of epilepsy, carbon monoxide poisoning and problems with alcohol abuse.

Published works

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• Tales of the Folio Club (1832-1836)
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838)
• Wm. Duane copy of Southern Literary Messenger (1839)
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
• Phantasy Pieces (1842)
• The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843)
• Tales by Edgar A. Poe (1845)
• J. Lorimer Graham copy of Tales
• S. H. Whitman copy of the Broadway Journal (1850)
• The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

Poems

• Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827)
• "Wilmer" manuscript collection (1828)
• Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829)
• Poems, by Edgar A. Poe (1831)
• The Poets and Poetry of America (1842)
• Philadelphia Saturday Museum (1843)
• Herring copy of Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1845)
• The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
• J. Lorimer Graham copy of The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
• Richmond Examiner proof sheets collection (1849)
• The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

Analyze

Both the poems and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe costumam vir envelopes in an atmosphere of mystery, horror and death, many times invoking um melancholic tom and soturn.

Poe was a precursor not detective style and managed to print us seus works um gothic ar até então pouco explored.

Interested in working or process of degradation of the human being, Allan Poe narrates his texts to physical and mental deterioration.

Or corvo (1845)

Or poem The raven (Or corvo), which became a classic of North American literature, its visibility and recognition of Poe when it was published in the American Review on January 29, 1845.

Ao long two cento and oito verses we find um eu-lyrical solitary and devastated apos a morte gives his beloved Lenora.

Depois desse tragic event, a corvo - a winter night, in dezembro - enters pela her janela and pousa na statua do bust of Pallas Atenas (deusa da sabedoria). From that moment on, the eu-lyrical begins to dialogue as a corvo.

Disse or Corvo, "never again."
"Prophet", disse eu, "prophet - ou demônio ou ave preta! –
Fosse diabo ou tempestade quem te trouxe a meus umbrais,
To this mourning and this degredo, and this night and this segredo
To this house of Annsia and Medo, tell this soul to attract me

O most consecrated poem of Poe - and possibly two most famous of North American literature - face use of rhymes e trace uma hypnotic quase aesthetic that wraps or leitor numa musicality lyric.

The verses fizeram so much success that they were translated logo and crossed the borders of the United States. The raven chegou to be translated even by Charles Baudelaire (in 1853), Fernando Pessoa (in 1883) and Machado de Assis (in 1924).

Find out more about or Poem O corvo, by Edgar Allan Poe.

Phrases

It is to be bet that all public ideas, all oil conventions remain a tolice, then they became convenient for the most part.

All religion simply unfolds based on not mean, profit, imagination and poetry.

The real life of a human being consists of being happy, mainly because of always being in the hope of being very soon.

Curiosity

At home where the writer lived in Baltimore between 1831 and 1835 as a paternal love, aunt Maria Clemm and a cousin (and his future wife) Virginia was transformed into a museum. Or space is called Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum and is open for a visit.

Conheça also

• Gothic art
• José Saramago: biography and books

Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).