him from the school. This was after less than a year of attendance there. Poe returned to Richmond where the rift between him and his father deepened. Poe became aware of an affair that his father had while Poe was away. Poe adored his mother, Fanny, and threatened to expose his father. Poe was also heartbroken by the loss of another of his loves. Before he left for the University of Virginia, Poe had fallen in love with a Richmond girl named Sarah Elmira Royster. Despite her parents disapproval Sarah accepted Poe's proposal for marriage. While he was at the University his letters to her were intercepted by her parents. Thinking that Poe had abandoned her she married another man, a Mr. Shelton. Not only was Poe's heart broken, but the social snub was too much for him to bear. Three months later he left Richmond and went to Boston.
             In Boston he met a printer, Calvin Thomas and published his first work "Tamerlane and Other Poems". It was signed "by a Bostonian", because Poe felt that the city of his birth would find more favor in a
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