This 1843 poem is centered on a performance of a tragedy entitled Man.
This 1843 poem is centered on a performance of a tragedy entitled Man. The author describes the audience as, "An angel throng, bewinged, bedight / In veils, and drowned in tears, / Sit in a theatre, to see" the production whose hero is "A blood-red thing that writhes from out / The scenic solitude!" First included in the short story "Ligeia," --for 10 points-- name this work centering on the creature who eats the actors as the curtain falls in a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
This 1843 poem is centered on a performance of a tragedy entitled Man.
{“Conqueror Worm”}