Show Edgar Allan Poe Born in Boarding BoardingHouse BoardingHouse BoardingHouse House in Boston Tradition Tells Edgar Allan Poe never possessed a home in the true and accurate meaning of that word Tradition tells that he was born in a boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse house In Boston observes a Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Star editorial writer His I boyhood was spent under alien I roofs in Richmond and in England Neither at the University of Virginia nor at West Point had he anything better than quarters Casual shelter was his lot during his wanderings wanderings wanderings wan wan- between 1830 and 1836 after which latter date he was habitually a dependent guest of his aunt the kindly Mrs Maria Clemm whose beautiful daughter he married at atthe atthe atthe the apex of one of the most poignantly sorrowful romances in inthe inthe inthe the history of literature literature-a a story to rank with the tragedies of ot Abelard and Heloise and Dante and Bea Bea- trice Mrs Clemm made the young couple as comfortable as she could for tor three years in Amity street in Baltimore The exact address is isa isa isa a matter of at controversy but the approximate location has been as as- But Poe himself probably would not care His cottage at Fordham In New N ew York keeps his name alive for tor tourists and Baltimore already is Is famous as the custodian of his weary ashes More important than II any single spot associated with his name is the immortality a of his works Even an ordinary reader is quick to feel the undiminished power of them The occasional student student student stu stu- stu- stu dent who examines them with care learns to love the man from whose tortured soul they sprang He perished perished perished per per- at forty yet left in his books a monument unparalleled unparalleled perhaps perhaps the largest the most skillfully composed composed composed com com- posed the most notably diverse and the most profoundly compelling fruit that ever a suffering spirit spIrU has has' produced since the art a of letters letters letters let let- began |