Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to David and Elizabeth Poe, two traveling actors, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Poe was disappointed with his very low pay and moved to New York City to seek work during the financial crisis of 1837. ... He had moved to the countryside, where he only lived two more years. ... He found another love interest in Sarah Whitman, but again their engagement was short-lived, lasting only one month. ... Lady Rowena was "fair-haired and blue-eyed," and shorter than Ligeia ("Ligeia"). ...

• Word Count: 3693
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, had been widowed at eighteen, and two years after his birth she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. ... In the first of the poem's three stanzas, Poe compares Helen's beauty to the ships of Nicea, a city near the Sea of Marmara. ... He stated his age as twenty-two, although he was just eighteen. In his two years in the Army, he rose to be regimental sergeant major. ... For the next two years he turned to free-lance writing. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School