"Lenore" in the Raven by Poe

[BoldAsLove]

does anybody kno which woman in real life Poe was referring to with Lenore?

 

[allisolm]

I've read that it was his dead wife Virginia. I believe she died and then he wrote the poem "Lenore". "The Raven" came a few years later.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Originally posted by: allisolm
I've read that it was his dead wife Virginia.

QFT. His first and only, she was quite young, and it troubled him alot.
iirc, it was consumption, or child birth.