Poe – “Ligeia”

Dr. Peter Mathews

Hanyang University

Fall 2014

November 11, 2014

Reference: Ligeia (Siren)

Context: Reality and Will

“The world is my representation” (Arthur

Schopenhauer, The World as Will and

Representation, 1818)

A mixture of mysticism (Swedenborg),

philosophy (Kant), and Asian philosophy

(particularly Buddhism) blended together to

create the idea that the physical world is an

illusion and the spiritual is the true reality.

Reference: Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680)

Reference: Ashtophet (Astarte)

Reference: Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Reference: Houri

Reference: Democritus

Reference: Lady Rowena

Context: Opium