semester but left due to lack of money. ?Then enlisted in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point.РEdgar Allan PoeРPoe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own. ?Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland. The circumstances and cause of his death remain uncertainРEdgar Allan PoeРPoe's best known fiction works are Gothic.?His most recurring themes deal with questions of death.?Many of his works are generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre.?He believed that quality work should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.?Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle".