Ligeia

For example, on the first track of the first CD, we hear Mr. Dafoe recite, over an insidious, unspooling whine, an abridged and altered version of the poem from the middle of the story "Ligeia" - the poem that ends with the famous lines that "the play is the tragedy 'Man'/And its hero the Conqueror Worm."

Reed Does Postmodern Poe; Quoth the Reviewer: 'Nevermore' 2003

Though each of these stories are certainly classics, two of them aren't vampire stories ( "Ligeia" and "Mark Of The Beast").

z0mbieastronaut: .Ha HA!! I am here!Sorry, fellow a z0mbieastronaut 2009

Though each of these stories are certainly classics, two of them aren't vampire stories ( "Ligeia" and "Mark Of The Beast").

April 28th, 2009 z0mbieastronaut 2009

Poe seemed to relish the deaths of beautiful women, especially when he could also describe their morbid resurrections ( "Ligeia" and "Morella").

Poe at 200 -- Eerie After All These Years 2009

The Blind Boys of Alabama fashion a compelling gospel sermon out of selected passages from "Ligeia" and "The Imp of the Perverse" - though for reasons I can't quite figure, the song, which is backed by a tempestuous organ, is called "I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)."

Reed Does Postmodern Poe; Quoth the Reviewer: 'Nevermore' 2003

"Ligeia," Poe speaks of "carpets of tufted gold," apparently meaning fabrics of very thick and rich material.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

"Ligeia," perhaps standing next, incorporating "The Conqueror Worm" as its keynote, portrays the terrific struggle of a woman's will against death.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

Before this several of his works, among them that of "Ligeia," had already brought him into some prominence.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

In "Ligeia," which Poe sometimes thought the best of all his tales, the theme is the ceaseless life of the will, the potency of the spirit of the beloved and departed woman.

The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

Only four or five of his poems -- "The Raven," "Ligeia," the earlier of the two addressed "To Helen," and the sonnet to his wife -- escape being flawed by some fit of haste, some ungovernable error of taste, some hopeless, unaccountable break in their beauty.

A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874