![]() ![]() Frustrated in his studies, Poe spent a few, surprisingly successful, years in the army before getting himself an early termination, and into officer training at West Point - from which he was dishonourably discharged. By the time Poe entered Virginia University he was prickly and nervous, a hard-drinking and heavy-gambling adolescent perpetually squabbling with his parsimonious stepfather over ever-ballooning debts. But appealing can quickly become appalling. ![]() ![]() Adopted by Fanny and John Allan, the latter an émigré Scottish businessman, little Poe was by all reports an appealing child, excelling in his studies. His alcoholic and incompetent father abandoned the family a few years after Poe's birth his mother promptly died of tuberculosis. His parents were actors, a déclassé profession at the time, and both were consumptive. Born into poverty, sickness and vagabondage, Edgar Allan Poe was doomed from the beginning. ![]()
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