Early in 1847 his wife died, and the year 1848 saw the end of two unhappy love affairs. Overnight, he became the most talked-about man of letters in America. In April 1844, he moved his family to New York, and in January of the following year his literary fortunes turned when his poem ＂The Raven＂ appeared in the New York Evening News. In May 1836, he married Virginia Clemm, a child of thirteen and the daughter of a paternal aunt. This last defect made it impossible for him to retain the editorial positions he later secured on magazines in Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York, despite the fact that the tales and book reviews he contributed greatly increased circulation. From 1831 to 1835, he lived in Baltimore, where he began a lifelong struggle with poverty, disappointments in love, and addiction to alcohol. Between 18, he published three volumes of poetry: Tamerlane (1827), Al Aaraaf (1829), and Poems (1831). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949) received a good education, first in England, then in a private school at Richmond, and later spent a year at the University of Virginia before he ran away to enlist in the army.
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