Edgar Allan Poe's Demons

Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston to traveling actors and his mother dies in 1811. He gets raised by a merchant in Richmond named John Allen, spelled the same way, probably his godfather. Most of his life actually is him going back and forth from Richmond to other places. Poe had some nepotism that got him into West Point, but maybe in some kind of early manifestations of those demons, he flumped.