SOURCE: “The Madness of Art and Science in Poe's ‘Ligeia,’” in Essays in Arts and Sciences, Vol. 24, October, 1995, pp. 21-32.
In the following essay, Hume analyses Poe's “Ligeia” as a synthesis of mythology and science.
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