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Main article: Death of Edgar Allan Poe Poe is interred at Westminster Hall in Baltimore, Maryland (Lat: 39.29027; Long: −76.62333); the circumstances and cause of his death remain uncertain.

In 1827, around the time he published his first book, Poe joined the U.S. Army. Two years later, he learned that his mother, Frances, was dying of tuberculosis, but by the time he returned to Richmond, she had already died. Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, ed., Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990). The Balloon-Hoax" (April 13, 1844) – A newspaper article that was actually a journalistic hoax [112]

A New Literary Sensibility

Poe and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. He and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. The earliest surviving home in which Poe lived is at 203 North Amity St. in Baltimore, which is preserved as the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. Poe is believed to have lived in the home at the age of 23 when he first lived with Maria Clemm and Virginia and possibly his grandmother and possibly his brother William Henry Leonard Poe. [157] It is open to the public and is also the home of the Edgar Allan Poe Society. Bittner, William (1962). Poe: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-09686-7. But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been. Poe was finally discharged on April 15, 1829, after securing a replacement to finish his enlisted term for him. [27] Before entering West Point, he moved to Baltimore for a time to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter Virginia Eliza Clemm (Poe's first cousin), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. [28] In September of that year, Poe received "the very first words of encouragement I ever remember to have heard" [29] in a review of his poetry by influential critic John Neal, prompting Poe to dedicate one of the poems to Neal [30] in his second book Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, published in Baltimore in 1829. [31]

Dameron and Irby B. Cauthen Jr., Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism 1827-1967 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974). Poe Toaster tribute is 'nevermore' ". The Baltimore Sun. Tribune Company. January 19, 2010. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012 . Retrieved January 19, 2012. The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of his Life and Genius, edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 4 volumes (New York: Redfield, 1850-1856). Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's 197th Birthday at the Poe museum". PoeMuseum.org. 2006. Archived from the original on January 5, 2009.Poe switched his focus to prose, and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In 1836, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, but she died of tuberculosis in 1847. In January 1845, he published his poem " The Raven" to instant success. He planned for years to produce his own journal The Penn, later renamed The Stylus. But before it began publishing, Poe died in Baltimore in 1849, aged 40, under mysterious circumstances. The cause of his death remains unknown, and has been variously attributed to many causes including disease, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide. [5] Carlson, ed., The Recognition of Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Criticism since 1829 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966). Kennedy, J. Gerald (1987). Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-03773-9. About the project". Edgar Allan Poe Square Public Art Project. Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, Inc. Archived from the original on April 23, 2013 . Retrieved April 9, 2013. As a critic at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond from 1835 to 1837, Poe published some of his own works in the magazine, including two parts of his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Later on came poems such as “Ulalume” and “The Bells.” “The Raven”