They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Milton Meltzer, the author of Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography expresses, that, In Poe’s time living in Boston, he tried to sustain himself working as a clerk and a newspaper writer. After his brother’s death, Poe began in more earnest to start his career as a writer. Unfortunately Poe chose a difficult time in American publishing to do so. He was the first well-known American to provide for himself by writing alone. As the difficult times the world was in hurt by the Panic of 1837, and other turmoil’s, publishers often refused to pay their writers, or paid them much later than they promised. Poe throughout his attempts to live as a writer repeatedly had to resort to reputation eroding pleas for money and other assistance. As strange as it may sound Poe, married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. Shortly into their marriage Virginia fell sick to a deadly illness. Poe began to drink more heavily under the stress of her illness. Poe moved to a cottage in the Forham section of The Bronx, New York. This is where he befriended the Jesuits at St. Johns College. Virginia died there on January 30, 1847. His mental state awry, Poe attempted to court the poet Sarah Helen Whitman, who lived in Providence Rhode Island. Their engagement failed, due to Poe’s drinking and erratic behavior. After his time with Sarah, he then returned to Richmond and resumed a relationship with his long time childhood sweetheart,