Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Where was the effects of tuberculosis shown in edgar allen poe's works/life

Where was the effects of tuberculosis shown in edgar allen poe's works/life?
Where was the effects of tuberculosis shown in edgar allen poe's works/life? examples/references and links would be great. how about in his works? i knowhis life, but ive only read 2/3 of his works.
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Every women he ever loved died of it??
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Mother: Elizabeth Poe, an actress, died of tuberculosis in 1811. Wife: Poe married his cousin Virginia Clemm when she was 13 years old. After a long bout with tuberculosis, she died in 1847.
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Perhaps his feelings of death and loneliness was intensified
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I looked up the dates and was surprised to find that his darkest works were written during his marriage to Virginia, rather than after (and as I had supposed, but was wrong) because of her death. The next thing I would look for is the years that Virginia suffered from tuberculosis, because this would have been a period with a sense of impending doom. That could have influenced this period of morbid fascination with death. Poe died about two years after Virginia, on a trip to marry Sarah Elmira Royster. Because of his past (gambling and drinking) it was supposed he had died of alcoholism. More recently, there are doctors who gather to reassess the deaths of famous people. Poe's evaluation included a doctor from India who pointed out that the others on the panel weren't used to seeing cases of human rabies, but in India they still do. He presented a convincing case that Poe's death was due to rabies, which would have been more likely at that time and something we'd tend to not realize as modern people in a developed nation looking at a past event. I simply took the first source for dates: http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/17841865/lit/poe.htm I searched, Poe +tuberculosis

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