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In 1836, he married his first cousin Virginia Clemm, three months before her 14th birthday. Poe was an alcoholic, and drank increasingly after his wife's death in 1847. In 1849, he was found on the streets in Baltimore and died soon after. The cause of Poe's death remains unknown.<ref>The Poe Museum, [http://www.poemuseum.org/poes_life/index.html "Poe's Life"], by James Southall Wilson</ref>
In 1836, he married his first cousin Virginia Clemm, three months before her 14th birthday. Poe was an alcoholic, and drank increasingly after his wife's death in 1847. In 1849, he was found on the streets in Baltimore and died soon after. The cause of Poe's death remains unknown.<ref>The Poe Museum, [http://www.poemuseum.org/poes_life/index.html "Poe's Life"], by James Southall Wilson</ref>
== Literary Impact ==
Poe's works had a mixed, but largely negative, reception among literary circles during his life, but they were to have great influence on writers, particuarly European writers, after his death.
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But because of his use of imagination and his diving into the grotesque, the absurd, and darkness of dreams, he is linked with the creation of the surrealism movement and, from his staunch ideas on writing, inspired whole new genres to acquire the fame and fortune that eluded him. The famous pseudo-science fiction writer Jules Verne lists Poe as his main inspiration, as have other foreign writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and the contemporary author Carlos Fuentes. As American author Joyce Carol Oates put it, "Who has not been influenced by Poe?"
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==Works==
==Works==