Edgar Allan Poe was a very famous writer for writing stories dealing with suspence, horror, and mystery. He was called the father of the detective story. At age two, his mother tragically died and the father already had abandoned him. He was adopted into a new family the Allan's. These people were very successful in the tabbacco industy. By age 13 he had started writing poety and wrote alot of it. He was very dedicated to writing at this age. Poe went to college at a university, but went into debt. To try to pay off this debt, he gambled but he went into more debt. At this point he dropped out of the university. He later went to another university, than became a cridict. He was known as the tamahawk man for his harsh cridic ways. He eventually married his 13 year old cousin secretly, than in 1836 went public about the marrige. He loved her alot, and they lived together. Around age 20 though, she had died of tuberculosis. He later died at age 40 from unknown, mysterious causes.
Edgar had a very famous life as a writer. He had joined the military while publishing his first book. While attending the military acadamey, he published his second book. Poe exceded his studies at the acadamy, but was kicked out of the army for poor handling in his duties. During this time, Poe had fought alot with his foster parent, then eventually cut all ties with him. He than later moved to live with his aunt and her daughter. Later in his life, he had joined up with a magazine company. This is where he got his nickname for his harsh ways. He also put some articles into the magazine that introduced his new writing. Because of how he was with the harsh ways, and aggressive behavior, he left the company in 1837. He also had an alcohol at the time, and some say this played a part in his departure of the company in 1837. In 1845 though, he published one of his greatist peices of work called "The Raven". It was considered a great american literaty work, and one of his best. He found himself under attack from one of his own friendly poet writers Longfellow. He claimed that Longfellow had plagarised him.
If the Enlightenment was a movement which started among a tiny elite and slowly spread to make its influence felt throughout society, Romanticism was more widespread both in its origins and influence. No other intellectual/artistic movement has had comparable variety, reach, and staying power since the end of the Middle Ages.
Beginning in Germany and England in the 1770s, by the 1820s it had swept through Europe, conquering at last even its most stubborn foe, the French. It traveled quickly to the Western Hemisphere, and in its musical form has triumphed around the globe, so that from London to Boston to Mexico City to Tokyo to Vladivostok to Oslo, the most popular orchestral music in the world is that of the romantic era. After almost a century of being attacked by the academic and professional world of Western formal concert music, the style has reasserted itself as neoromanticism in the concert halls. When John Williams created the sound of the future in Star Wars, it was the sound of 19th-century Romanticism--still the most popular style for epic film soundtracks.
Beginning in the last decades of the 18th century, it transformed poetry, the novel, drama, painting, sculpture, all forms of concert music (especially opera), and ballet. It was deeply connected with the politics of the time, echoing people's fears, hopes, and aspirations. It was the voice of revolution at the beginning of the 19th century and the voice of the Establishment at the end of it.
This last shift was the result of the triumph of the class which invented, fostered, and adopted as its own the romantic movement: the bourgeoisie. To understand why this should have been so, we need to look more closely at the nature of the style and its origins.
Sources:
1.http://www.biography.com/people/edgar-allan-poe-9443160
2.http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
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