He married Virginia Clemm, his cousin who was less than 14 years old, in 1836. Choosing a literary career after the death of his foster father, Poe began to contribute critical reviews to the Richmond Southern Literary Messenger in 1835 and later became its editor for two years. Many of his formative years were spent in the southern cities of Richmond and Baltimore, the latter being the home of his blood relatives. Jacobs, indeed a southerner by temperament and inclination. Thoroughly trained in the classics and in the rhetoric and aesthetics of the Scottish common-sense school of philosophers, Poe was, according to the critic Robert D. Poems, a third volume of poetry, was published in 1831. Kennedy began to support his efforts to attain literary prominence. Beginning in 1829, influential writers and journalists like John Neal and John P. Aided by his foster father, he entered West Point in 1830 as a cadet but was soon discharged for failing to heed regulations. His first volume of poems, entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems, was privately published in 1827 a second volume, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, appeared in 1829 shortly after he was honorably discharged from the army. In 1826 he attended the University of Virginia, leaving after only a few months to join the United States Army.
His father mysteriously disappeared in 1810, and after his mother's subsequent death, in December 1811, he became the foster son of John Allan, a prominent Richmond, Va., tobacco merchant who gave Poe many childhood advantages. Born on 19 January 1809, in Boston, Mass., Poe was the second child of David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, both active theatrical performers on the East Coast of the United States. The South's most renowned literary artist of the 19th century spent most of his productive years as a struggling journalist in large northern cities.
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