Eureka
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025202849X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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what its future might be, this user-friendly critical edition is also the first to put Eureka in proper context. Scholarly annotated edition of Poe's Eureka; Originally published in 1848, Edgar Allen Poe's Eureka stands as the single most important expression of the philosophic views on which all of his literary endeavors depend. To compile this definitive text, the Levines traveled to the special collections departments of various libraries to examine Poe's own notes on the various drafts. The result of their meticulous scholarship is a deep, broad, and thoroughly useful volume, essential for Poe scholars and valuable to anyone interested in American literature or the roots of science f
"Well-Researched Edition of Eureka by Stuart and Susan Levine" according to Patrick Moore LMT Educator. The rest of the reviews on this page are about Poe's Eureka, a brilliant piece of literature that threatens to solve the riddle of life, the universe, and everything.I just want readers to see that this is not another ordinary reprint of Eureka, which has lost copyright and so is freely available on the internet, along with all of Poe's work. Why buy a $20 book when you can get it for fr. Very Interesting----Poe wrote this???! Chris Reich Ok, I was shocked to see a science book written by Edgar Allan Poe. He himself calls it a poemok, Poe, poem.I'm into astronomy so I thought, why not? Well, here's the thing. It strikes me as a serious work---a sort of explanation of how the Universe was seen in 1848. I found the reading to be a grind from time to time. I wondered why I was reading "outdated" science. I wondered why I was. "Poe's Pinnacle Work on the Creation of the Universe" according to Brett J. Millan. Written in 18Poe's Pinnacle Work on the Creation of the Universe Brett J. Millan Written in 1848, Eureka, one of Edgar Allan Poe's last works, propounds his theory of the creation of the material and spiritual universe. In his preface, Poe says "it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead." However, a reader would find it hard to consider Eureka a poem of any sort when the author spends three-quarters of the work expounding, through philos. 8, Eureka, one of Edgar Allan Poe's last works, propounds his theory of the creation of the material and spiritual universe. In his preface, Poe says "it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead." However, a reader would find it hard to consider Eureka a poem of any sort when the author spends three-quarters of the work expounding, through philos
. An extremely versatile writer best known for his tales of terror and the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe holds a remarkable place in the history of American literature
Having begun as a scientific lecture, it winds up as an apocalyptic revelation. 'Eureka!' is his heart-cry. "Eureka, Poe's testament, the synthesis of his analytic ideas, offers itself as a treatise on nothing less than cosmology. 'I have found it!' he breathlessly seems to announce." . 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