31 May 2011

Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Massachusetts

'EDGAR ALLAN POE
POET   STORYWRITER   CRITIC

BORN ON CARVER STREET JANUARY 19, 1809,
TO DAVID AND ELIZABETH (ELIZA) POE,
ACTORS AT THE BOSTON THEATRE.
IN 1827 PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK,
TAMBERLAINE AND OTHER POEMS,
AT A SHOP ON THE CORNER OF WASHINGTON
AND STATE STREETS AND ENLISTED IN THE
U.S. ARMY AT FORT INDEPENDENCE,
BOSTON HARBOR. LECTURED IN BOSTON
OCTOBER 16, 1845, PUBLISHED "LANDOR'S COTTAGE,"
HIS LAST TALE, IN BOSTON'S
FLAG OF OUR UNION, JUNE 9, 1849.
DIED AT BALTIMORE OCTOBER 7, 1849.'

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