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Chapter Two Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) Born in Boston, the son of itinerant actors who died before he was 3 years old. Became the ward of a Virginia couple, the Allans, whose name he added to his own. An editor of a number of magazines and won a number of literary prizes for his poems and fiction. His short fiction, with its effects of terror and its supernatural trappings, made him a household name for American readers. He is regarded as father of modern American short story. His poems have been highly appreciated for their aesthetical quality and music is essential in them as it is