e would have to face in his lifetime. This was an extremely painful time for Poe.
             Soon after the death of his mother, Poe's father died. Poe moved in with his grandfather. His grandfather was a very poor man, and due to insufficient funds, he was forced to put Edgar up for adoption. Rosalie was adopted by Mrs. Mackenzie of Richmond. Edgar was taken in by a wealthy tobacco exporter named John Allan. Allan never legally adopted Edgar, but his wife, Frances, raised him as if he were one of her own.
             The Allan family soon moved to England so John could establish an English office for his firm. They were there for five years. While there, John Allan enrolled Edgar in a boarding school in Irvine, Scotland. Here Poe studied Latin, French, and mathematics. Poe did very well in his studies during the time he was at this school. He left the school in Irvine to attend school at the boarding school of Mrs. Dubourg in Chelsea. He stayed there until the spring of 1817. In the fall of that year, he was enrolled in the Manor House School in Stoke Newington. He attended this school until his foster father's business in England proved to be unprofitable. It was near this time that Poe's foster mother had been diagnosed with tuberculosis. They moved back to Richmond in 1820.
             When they returned to Richmond, Poe's foster father enrolled him in Trinity College under the teaching of Joseph Clarke. While studying with Clarke, Poe read works by such writers as Cicero, Caesar, Horace, and Homer. In addition to his academics, Poe excelled in athletics. One classmate, James Preston, once said, "Poe was a swift runner, a wonderful leaper, and what was more rare, a boxer with some slight training,"(Szunski 17). Poe even set a broad jump record of twenty-one feet and six inches.
             It was during this time that Poe fell in love with one of his classmate's mother. Poe had met Rob Stanard at school, and one...