September 2, 2025 • 3 mins
Edgar Allan Poe, a pivotal figure in American literature, was not just an accomplished writer, editor, and literary critic; he was also a master of the macabre and the mysterious. Renowned for his haunting poetry and chilling short stories, Poe is celebrated as a key voice of Romanticism in the United States. He pioneered the detective fiction genre and made significant contributions to the early development of science fiction. Join us as we delve into the eerie and captivating world of Poes imagination. - Summary by Wikipedia
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Pobe readfully provokes dot
Org by Tony Addison. Low tis a gala night within
the lonesome latter years, an angel throng, bewinged, bedight in veils,
(00:27):
and drowned in tears, set in a theater to see
a play of hopes and fears, while the orchestra breeds
faithfully the music of the spheres. Minds in the form
(00:47):
of God on high, mutter and mumble love, and hither
and feather fly, mere puppets, They who come and go
at bidding a vast formless things that chip the scenery
(01:08):
to and fro flapping from out their condor wings invisible
woe that motley drum. Oh, be sure it shall not
be forgot with its phantom chaste forever more by a
(01:29):
crowd that sees it not through a circle that ever
returneth in to the sub same spot. And much of
madness and more of sem and are up the soul
of the plot. But see amid the mimic rap, a
(01:50):
curling shape in truth, a blood red thing that rides
from out the scenic solid cud. It rides, It rides
with mortal pangs. The minds become its food and syrup
(02:13):
sob that vermin fangs in human God in viewed, out
out of the lights, out of and over each quivering form.
The curtain the funeral.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Palm comes down with the rush of a storm, while
the angels all palid and warm up, rising unveiling a firm.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That the play is the tragedy man and its hero
the conqueror Worm and a poem. This recording is in
the public domain.
The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Pobe readfully provokes dot
Org by Tony Addison. Low tis a gala night within
the lonesome latter years, an angel throng, bewinged, bedight in veils,
(00:27):
and drowned in tears, set in a theater to see
a play of hopes and fears, while the orchestra breeds
faithfully the music of the spheres. Minds in the form
(00:47):
of God on high, mutter and mumble love, and hither
and feather fly, mere puppets, They who come and go
at bidding a vast formless things that chip the scenery
(01:08):
to and fro flapping from out their condor wings invisible
woe that motley drum. Oh, be sure it shall not
be forgot with its phantom chaste forever more by a
(01:29):
crowd that sees it not through a circle that ever
returneth in to the sub same spot. And much of
madness and more of sem and are up the soul
of the plot. But see amid the mimic rap, a
(01:50):
curling shape in truth, a blood red thing that rides
from out the scenic solid cud. It rides, It rides
with mortal pangs. The minds become its food and syrup
(02:13):
sob that vermin fangs in human God in viewed, out
out of the lights, out of and over each quivering form.
The curtain the funeral.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Palm comes down with the rush of a storm, while
the angels all palid and warm up, rising unveiling a firm.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That the play is the tragedy man and its hero
the conqueror Worm and a poem. This recording is in
the public domain.
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