WILL SOME ONE HELP ME WITH POE'S EDUCATION? LIKE WHAT SCHOOLS DID HE ATTEND?

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2003

Answers

Most of Poe's early education was in boarding schools in England from age 6 to about 11. First at the Dubourg school in Chelsea and then the Manor House school in Stoke Newington. Poe spent about 5 years in England and returned to Richmond, Virgina in 1820 and attended Clarke's Academy for 3 years and later he attends the Burke and Dr. Thomas schools. From Feburary to December of 1826 Poe attends the University of Virgina at Charlottesville - where he excels in latin and French. He also incurs gambling debts which his father John Allan refuses to pay and he is forced to leave the University and run away after a fight with Allan over these debts. In the middle of 1830 he enters West Point Military Academy as a cadet. Poe disobey's orders and is court-martial and kicked out of the Academy in early 1831.

-- Anonymous, November 18, 2003