2 Quotes & Sayings By Poe

The couple had no children, and she died of tuberculosis on December 11, 1835. Poe attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville (1826–1827) on a scholarship. He left after two months, after his father's death; he returned briefly to teach at his old school before moving to New York City to become a literary critic. However, he was unable to make a living as a critic and instead became a journalist.

He was hired by several newspapers, including the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine, but most of his early stories were rejected. His earliest successful publication was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", which appeared in Graham's in 1841. Poe is most famous for his short stories "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Raven", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Gold Bug". He also published several short stories with illustrations by Alexander Hentz in Graham's Magazine between 1842 and 1843.

He is also known for his philosophical essays "Maelzel's Chess Problem" (1842), "A Descriptive Catalogue of Books" (1844), "Arthur Gordon Pym" (1838), "Berenice" (1835), which was never printed but now appears as part of the collection The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1920) edited by James Russell Lowell), and for co-authoring The Philosophy of Composition with James Russell Lowell (issued posthumously). Poe died on October 7, 1849 at age 40 from complications due to alcoholism. He is buried in Baltimore with Virginia Clemm. Poe has been celebrated internationally as a masterful innovator whose tales and poems—often considered dark and haunting—have captivated readers and continue to do so more than 150 years after his death.