Hello Students,

I know that there is a problem posting the audio documents. I have to imbed an MP3 player into the blog, which I haven't quite figured out how to do yet.
The homework for the blog is canceled, but your presentations are still necessary!

Mrs. Buckley

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, January nineteen, eighty nine is a poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, playwright and American publisher and one of the leading figures of American romanticism. Known for his tales he is considered the inventor of the detective story. Edgar Allan Poe, in his early childhood, loses his parents, David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold;

  he is taken in by John and Frances Allan.

After a brief stint at the University of Virginia and military career Poe attempts Allan leaves.

His literary career began humbly by the anonymous publication of a book of poems.

  twenty-six, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, then aged twelve  years.

In January eighty forty five , Poe published The Raven, which was an immediate success.

  But two years later, his wife Virginia died of tuberculosis twenty January eighty forty seven.

   On October seven, January eighty forty nine  , Poe died at the age of forty in Baltimore.