{"id":2,"date":"2015-08-15T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/SampleStudentePortfolio\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-08-15T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:16:26","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/SampleStudentePortfolio\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mostly a critic, but known as a 19th-century rock star poet. People call me “Poe” because I’m that well known.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You know my mug.<\/p>\n

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It’s famous worldwide, and synonymous with my name. There’s a great deal about me online, and you may scoff at Wikipedia, but it has its role in the world, and it’s fine for an informal blog like this one. This is from my Wikipedia entry<\/a>:Edgar Allan Poe<\/b>\u00a0(\/p<\/span>o\u028a<\/span>\/<\/a>; born\u00a0Edgar Poe<\/b>; January 19, 1809\u00a0\u2013 October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and\u00a0literary critic<\/a>, considered part of the American\u00a0Romantic Movement<\/a>. Best known for his tales ofmystery<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0macabre<\/a>, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the\u00a0detective fiction<\/a>\u00a0genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Born in\u00a0Boston<\/a>, Poe was the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of\u00a0Richmond, Virginia<\/a>. Although they never formally adopted him, Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Edgar repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for the young man. Poe attended the\u00a0University of Virginia<\/a>\u00a0for one semester but left due to lack of money. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems,\u00a0Tamerlane and Other Poems<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(1827), credited only to “a Bostonian”. With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. Later failing as an officer’s cadet at\u00a0West Point<\/a>\u00a0and declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, Poe parted ways with John Allan.<\/p>\n

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Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, includingBaltimore<\/a>,\u00a0Philadelphia<\/a>, and\u00a0New York City<\/a>. In Baltimore in 1835, he married\u00a0Virginia Clemm<\/a>, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe published his poem, “The Raven<\/a>“, to instant success. His wife died of\u00a0tuberculosis<\/a>\u00a0two years after its publication. For years, he had been planning to produce his own journal,\u00a0The Penn<\/i>\u00a0(later renamed\u00a0The Stylus<\/a><\/i>), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion,\u00a0cholera<\/a>, drugs, heart disease,\u00a0rabies<\/a>, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Poe: Always an Interpretation<\/h4>\n
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