Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer from 1809-1849 whose works remain popular today. The document discusses Poe's writings about life, love, and death. Poe wrote poems about the joy his marriage brought despite feeling like an outsider, and many love poems were about mourning the loss of his wife Virginia to tuberculosis. Poe also wrote stories about man's inability to escape death, drawing from his own experiences with loved ones dying of tuberculosis.