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Why did Edgar Allan Poe leave the University of Virginia?
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia for 11 months in 1826. He left the institution because he incurred significant gambling losses, which so incensed his guardian, John Allan, that he refused to allow Poe to continue his studies there.1