Edgar Allan Poe „All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.“

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

Who was Poe? Poet Inventor of detective and horror stories

Childhood Boston, 1809 Father left family Mother dies Was sent to fosters in Virginia (Allans)

Poe serving the country After unsuccesfull university life Getting high rank Foster sends him again to study US Military academy Poe and universities doesn´t do well together

Using an imagination After kicking out of USM academy Setted off to Baltimore Impossible to earn enough money at these times Altough people loved his stories, he couldn´t live on with little money 1835 getting job as an editor Fired because of his drinking

13 and bride He falled in love with pretty girl She was 13 years old The shock for Poe´s 19. century wasn´t her age, but the fact, that she was his cousin… how hypocritical Marriage was happy, harmonic life

A curse of Poe Tuberculosis Due to this illness his mother died and in 1847 dies his loving wife, Virginia The end of Poe´s satisfied life Comeback to drinking

A stylish death Poe died in 1849, on 3rd.of October Mystery is, that he was found lying on the street in foreign clothes without any marks of shoot, blood or poisoning Who was Reynolds??

Writtings The Raven Annabel Lee The Black Cat and Other Stories Message Found in a Bottle The Devil in Belfry The Lighthouse Pit and the Pendulum The Tell-Tale Heart

„Science hasn´ t yet taught us if madness is or isn´t the sublimity of the intelligence.“ Thanks for watching!