EDGAR ALLAN POE

5 Facts of Edgars profesional life:

1. His works have been in print since 1827
2. He has writen short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews.
3. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story
4. In 1826 Poe left Richmond to attend the University of Virginia
5. He published his first book Tamerlane when he was only eighteen

5 Facts of Edgars personal life:

1. Born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809
2. Edgar was the second of three children
3. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles
4. He married his cousin
5. He was addicted to drugs

Romanticism:

1. one of the curiosities of literary history
2. Popular not the countries of the romance languages themselves.
3. Romanticism begins at least in the 1770's
4.  Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic
5. The early Romantic period occurs in the "age of revolutions"

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html

http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php