Eureka (annotated) - Softcover

Poe, Edgar Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 151745364X ISBN 13: 9781517453640

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Eureka is a classic American poem by Edgar Allan Poe. To the few who love me and whom I love--to those who feel rather than to those who think--to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities--I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone:--let us say as a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a Poem.

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Review

"Eureka, Poe's testament, the synthesis of his analytic ideas, offers itself as a treatise on nothing less than cosmology. Having begun as a scientific lecture, it winds up as an apocalyptic revelation.... It may be read as a rationalistic counterstatement to the metaphysics of Transcendentalism, or as a pioneering experiment in the embryonic genre of science fiction.... 'Eureka!' is his heart-cry. 'I have found it!' he breathlessly seems to announce."

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 151745364X
• ISBN 13: 9781517453640
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 102