Art is in everything. Artists can be expert with the brush, phenomenal with the piano, or masters of their pen. Authors and poets have the ability to manipulate words like no other artist can. Poets in particular can use their words to encompass different types of art by painting a picture with rhythm and lyrical imagery. Poets may be common, but for their poetry to be timeless, it must be universally accessible. Edgar Allen Poe is considered one of the most famous poets in American history because of his well-known debauchery, gothic tales of terror, and poems taught in schools and still analyzed today. Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 19th century. It is well known that Poe led a difficult life and that the tragedy began at a young age. At three years old, he witnessed the death of his mother (Bloom). Then he was placed in the care of the Allen family who remained his benefactors until he attended the University of Virginia. However, Poe did not stay in college after 1826 because his adoptive father did not want to repay a debt Poe owed and he also did not want to pay tuition (bloom). From college, Poe returned to Massachusetts where he joined the army. It was in the army, in 1827, that Poe published his first work, entitled Tamerlane and other poems under anonymous name (Merriman). Shortly after its first publication, tragedy struck again. His adoptive mother died in 1829, the same year his second book was published. It was not until two years later that Poe met his future wife while living with his aunt and brother. Henry, his brother, died of tuberculosis, as did their mother shortly after Poe (Merriman) moved in. In the following years, Poe published several works and became a mid-editor of the journal.......117-120. EBSCO host. Internet. April 11, 2012. Forsythe, Robert S. Poe’s “Never Again”: A Note. » American Literature 7.4 (1936): 439-452. JSTOR. Internet. April 15, 2012. .Caputi, Anthony. "The refrain in Poe's poetry." American Literature 25.2 (1953): 169-178. JSTOR. Web.Moldenhauer, Joseph J. "Murder as Art: Fundamental Connections Between Poe's Aesthetics, Psychology, and Moral Vision." » Modern Language Association 83.2 May 1968. 284. JSTOR. Internet. April 16, 2012. Broderick, John. "Poe's Revisions of 'Lenore'." American Literature 35.4 January 1964. 506. JSTOR. Internet. April 11 2012..