Edgar Allan Poe was a person.
Edgar Allan Poe . He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole , and he was one of the country 's earliest practitioners of the short story . Poe was born in Boston , the second child of two actors . Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name .