A) Write complete sentences with the following information. Use the simple past

tense.

- Date of Birth : 19th January 1809

- Place of birth : Boston (USA)

- Date of Death : 7

th October 1849

- Job : American writer

- Family : (marry) his cousin, Virginia in 1836

B) Use the simple past tense and fill in the gaps with the following verbs:

Be (4X) – become – write (4X) – live – publish (3X) – die – suffer

He ………………….. famous  he ……………………… many tales of mystery

and he ……………………….. macabre stories because he …………………… a

short and tragic life.

In 1827, he ………………………………… his first poems. The public reaction to

his poems …………………..extraordinary.

, he …………………….. short stories for a magazine.

In 1835 he ………………………….. editor of the Southern Literary Messenger.

, he ………………………… some of his most famous stories and poems: in

1839 he …………………………. a macabre story, “The Fall of the House of

Usher” (it’s a story about a haunted castle, a palace of gold guarded by a

dragon…)  in 1841, he …………………………., The Murders in the Rue

Morgue, a detective story.

, Poe’s stories …………………….. often mysterious (with mysterious crimes for

example), macabre or supernatural (with strange legends, horrible monsters,

scary phenomenon, etc.).

His wife …………………of tuberculosis in 1847 and Poe

………………devastated. He ………………………….. from depression and

alcoholism.​