1st batx ppt

1. Edgar Allan Poe
Sílvia Zamora Isabel
B-53

2. Life
Born: Edgar Poe.
19th January 1809. Boston.
Author, poet, editor and
literary critic.
Orphaned.
John and Frances Allan.
 Never formally adopted him.

3. Life
University of Virginia.
Military career. “Tamerlane and Other
Poems”.
Difficult time in American publishing.
First American writer to write alone.
Death: 1849. Mysterious causes.

4. Works
1841. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Mystery and the macabre.
1845 "The Raven”. Nevermore.
Gothic.
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
Agatha Christie. Arthur
Alan Doyle.