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Excerpt from The Gold Bug
Poe had now chosen his profession but after six months of. The discipline of cadet life he determined to abandon it, brought about his own expulsion, Mr. Allan having refused to recog nize his resignation, and returned to Richmond in disgrace; providing, however, for the immediate future by a new edi tion of his verses, liberally subscribed for by the students, which was published in New York, in 1830, entitled simply Poems. This episode caused the final rupture with his long suffering benefactor. Friendless, penniless, and with nohopé of an inheritance, he now began the uneven struggle of poverty with letters, which for seventeen years was maintained with little surcease of bitterness and suffering. In 1833 he won a literary prize of one hundred dollars with a prose tale, A ms. Found in'a Bottle. By this success he secured friends, repu tation, and a position as editor of the Southern Literary Mes senger.
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