By Edgar Allan Poe
via the Poetry Foundation
A Note from the Editor
Poe’s sonnet captures the beauty and mystery of the gifts that science continues to reveal, even if steeped in the 19th century’s grandiose and melodramatic language. Poe is also the author of “Eureka,” arguably the ultimate science poem and a foundational prose poem to boot. Poe’s words describe the process of science to alter and inspire, and we feel underneath the flowery phrases something akin to awe, and inevitably, fear. - Guest Editors S.J. Fowler and Rebecca Kamen.
Read and view our guest editors’ collaborative piece reflecting on virology and COVID-19, “Silent Spread.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1946)
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