American author Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious and disheveled at a tavern in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 3. He sought the help of magazine editor Joseph E. Snodgrass and was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he was treated for his apparent intoxication.

On October 7 he died. A Baltimore newspaper reported enigmatically that the cause had been “congestion of the brain.” Several theories about Poe’s cause of death have emerged. The most prominent is that he died from complications of alcoholism.

2015年10月26日 · Despite his macabre literary genius, Edgar Allan Poe’s life was short and largely unhappy. After his young wife, Virginia, contracted tuberculosis in 1842 and died five years later, the already...

2023年11月13日 · For 174 years, the world has wondered exactly what—or who—caused author Edgar Allan Poe’s tragic, untimely death in 1849. Is the true answer close at last?

2019年1月19日 · The mystery of Poe’s death began on Sept. 27, 1840, when he left Richmond, Virginia, bound for Philadelphia to help a now forgotten poet, Marguerite St. Leon Loud, prepare a collection of...

2022年2月17日 · Though historians have pored over the details for a century and a half, no one knows for sure what caused Edgar Allan Poe’s death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. Six days before he died and not long before he was to be married, Edgar Allan Poe disappeared.

2024年8月10日 · In 1849, Poe was still sharing a home with Mrs. Clemm in New York, in the same little cottage where Virginia had died in 1847. On June 29, 1849, Poe began a lecture tour to raise money and interest in his projected magazine the Stylus. He went first to Philadelphia, then to Richmond and Norfolk.

2024年10月7日 · Edgar Allen Poe died on Oct. 7, 1849 — 175 years ago today. Though it's unclear exactly how the writer died, here's what we do know about his mysterious death.

The circumstances surrounding the death of Edgar Allan Poe have remained a mystery since he was found in a disheveled stupor in an East Baltimore tavern on Oct. 3, 1849 and died four days later on Oct. 7.

5 天之前 · Edgar Allan Poe turned up in a tavern in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 3, 1849, in bad shape and nearly unresponsive and was soon admitted to a hospital. He drifted in and out of consciousness, hallucinating and speaking nonsense.