. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket was published in July of 1838. The fictional figure, Arthur Gordon Pym, seems to have a lot in common with Edgar Allan Poe. They have similar names, and both are born in New England. Pym arrives in Tsalal on January 19, Poe's own birthday. Pym is the son of a "respectable trader in sea-stoers" and gets a respectable upbringing, expecting to inherit his grandfather's wealth. Many characters in Pym resemble people in Poe's surroundings, and the names are anagrams of real names, or at least resemble them. (Meyers, 1992, p.97-99).In early 1839 "Legeia" appeared in a Baltimore magazine. In "Legeia" Poe perfected the tale of the revenant, the person returned from the Other World. The narrator's one and only love dies and leaves him helpless as a child, which immediately makes him search for a new caretaker, Rowena. But he cannot love Rowena as he loved Legeia, and his efforts to forget Legeia conceal a stronger need to remember. Legia's rebirth tells of how the beloved lives within you, never dies and is always ready to return. This shows of Poe's tendency to dwell over the past, and the failure of letting it go. (May, 1991, p.61-64).During this time Virginia began to feel ill. On the evening of January 20, 1842, while Virginia was singing and playing the piano, she suddenly broke a blood vessel and began to hemorrhage. The blood gushed from her mouth and her life was evidently in danger. She was in the early stages of tuberculosis, the very illness that had taken his mother from him thirty-one years ago Virginia's illness took Poe very hard and he did everything he could to help her. His marriage to Virginia had meant a lot to Poe. It managed to keep him calm and kept him from drinking. While watching over Virginia, Poe wrote two Gothic tales that were published in Graham's. "Life in Death" is about a painter and his sick wife, whom strongly resembles Virginia. The painter refuses to see tha...
