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.
Poe and his foster father had a fight about Poe returning to school. Poe was going to to school at the University of Virgina and he wanted to return. His foster father disapproved and that led to Poe writing his first poetic volume called Tamerlane and Other Poems.
Charles Dickens and Walt Whitman were two famous people Poe met.
No, Poe was raised by foster parents John and Frances Allan of Richmond Virginia, who took him in after his natural mother and father died in December 1811. Poe took his middle name Allan from the last name of his foster parents.
The Raven and Tamerlane
Edgar Allan Poe and his stepfather, John Allan, did not get along very well. Allan was extremely strict, and refused to pay for Poe's college tuition. He eventually ended up disowning Poe. This lead to Poe publishing his works and becoming famous.
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.