...t Fortress Monroe. In the spring or summer of 1827 he brought out at Boston his first volume of poems, , a collection of ten fugitive pieces, all brief save one, and all plainly imitative either of Byron or of Moore. In February, 1829, Mrs. Allan died, and in April Poe was discharged from the army, a substitute having been provided, and efforts were made to obtain for him an appointment to West P...