Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Tragedy

Quotes about: Tragedy

• Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Morning, Moving

• Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Angel, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.326, University of Illinois Press

• That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Men, Play

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.194, Race Point Publishing

• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Italian, Turkeys

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2141, Delphi Classics

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