Poe was given the last name Allan by his foster parents, John and Frances Allan. However, his birth name was Edgar Poe, and he later adopted Poe as his middle name as well as his literary pseudonym.
The Raven and Annabel Lee
The two women most devoted to Edgar Allan Poe were his wife/cousin Virginia Clemm and his foster mother Frances Allan. .
Two poems by Edgar Allan Poe are The Raven and Annabel Lee.
Poe was never adopted. He was taken in by his foster parents, John and Frances Allan when he was two years old.
Edgar Allan Poe was two years old when his brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, died.
Edgar Allan Poe and John Allan fought primarily about Poe's career choices and financial dependence on Allan. Their most significant conflict was over Poe's decision to pursue a career as a writer instead of following Allan's preferred path of business or law. Allan's refusal to support Poe financially for his writing aspirations led to strained relations between the two.
Charles Dickens and Walt Whitman were two famous people Poe met.
Edgar Allan Poe's birth parents were Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe Jr. His father, David Poe Jr., abandoned the family when Edgar was very young, and his mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, died when he was just two years old. He was then taken in by the Allan family, who raised him but never formally adopted him.
The Raven and Tamerlane
Edgar Allan Poe's bitterness toward his stepfather, John Allan, strained their relationship and contributed to Poe's feelings of abandonment and instability. This tumultuous relationship likely influenced Poe's later works, often characterized by themes of loss, betrayal, and the struggle for identity. Poe's complex feelings toward his stepfather may have fueled his creativity but also added to his personal struggles and sense of inner turmoil.
Poe was two years, eleven months old when his natural mother died.
Edgar Allan Poe's dad abandoned his family when Poe was less than two years old, and no one really knows how Poe's dad died after he left them. He was known to struggle with alcoholism, and his acting troupe left him in Norfolk, Virginia shortly before he died because of an unknown debilitating illness.