Edgar Allan Poe
Bio
By: Katarina Martin. -Born July 4 th 1808, in Salem Mass. -his great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Ms. Giammario & Mrs. Burhenn. TO BEGIN… Was born Edgar Poe to Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and David Poe Jr. on January 19, 1809
Hawthorne: 1804-1864 The Scarlet Letter: 1850. PURITAN ERA: Mid-late 1600s Salem Witch Trials: 1692 (Judge Hathorne) Puritan “Religious Enlightenment”:
The Romance of Democracy: Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” (Political Science 565)
Southern Gothic
Gloomy Fantasy
The Romantics
The Scarlet Letter
Gothic Romanticism
