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The Poe family tree. Arnold was born to Henry and Elizabeth Arnold in London in the spring of 1787. [1] Her mother was a stage actress in London from 1791 to 1795. Her father Henry is thought to have died in 1790.
"Tamerlane" is the Latinized name of a 14th-century historical figure.. The main themes of "Tamerlane" are independence and pride [3] as well as loss and exile. [4] Poe may have written the poem based on his own loss of his early love, Sarah Elmira Royster, [5] his birth mother Eliza Poe, or his foster-mother Frances Allan. [4]
The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel.His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. [1]
For 174 years, the world has wondered exactly what—or who—caused author Edgar Allan Poe’s tragic, untimely death in 1849. Is the true answer close at last? A Breakthrough Clue May Untangle ...
Poe was outraged and suggested the contest was rigged. Hewitt claimed, decades later in 1885, that he and Poe brawled in the streets because of the contest, though the fight is not verified. [ 17 ] Poe believed his own poem was the actual winner, a fact which Latrobe later substantiated.
Menzoberranzan, the "City of Spiders", is a fictional city-state in the world of the Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. The city is located in the Upper Northdark, about two miles below the Surbrin Vale, between the Moonwood and the Frost Hills (north of the Evermoors and under the River Surbin [1]).
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Illustration of Nesace for "Al Aaraaf" by W. Heath Robinson. Nesace (/ n iː ˈ s ɑː k i /, [1] [2] Italian pronunciation: [neˈzaːtʃe]; [3] from Greek Νησάκη, Nēsakē 'small island') is one of the more prominent characters featured in Edgar Allan Poe's early epic poem Al Aaraaf, which came out in 1829 in the poetry anthology Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems.