The Military Career of Edgar Allan Poe James Kenny In the early part of 1827, Edgar Allan Poe arrived in Boston and immediately made arrangements for the publication of his first book, a collection of poems under the title of the main poem, Tamerlane. This book was published by Calvin F. S. Thomas, but Poe paid all the costs of publication. Surprisingly, Poe did not mention himself as the author. Rather, he signed himself "A Bostonian," naming the city in which he had been born but which otherwise meant nothing to him at this date. By signing the book this...