Wikinut : write, share and earn royalties. PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of poems and poets. Poetry Search Engine. COMPLETE COLLECTION OF POEMS BY EDGAR ALLAN POE: The Raven, Alone, Annabel Lee, The Bells, Eldorado, Ulalume and more. Poe, a great 19th-century American author, was born on Jan 19, 1809, in Boston, Mass.
Both his parents died when Poe was two years old, and he was taken into the home of John Allan, a wealthy tobacco exporter of Richmond, Va. Although Poe was never legally adopted, he used his foster father's name as his middle name.