Few people realize that with Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka: a prose poem Poe successfully fused the language of science with that of poetry. His imaginative speculation, similar in shape to a thought experiment, takes his audience on a fantastic journey through the cosmos, but not as an uninterested bystander. The journey that Poe offers his reader is that of participant, a participant in a cosmic … Continue reading the story "Poe’s Eureka –The Fundraising Campaign"
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At Performetry: Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself,’ an Ode to Empathy
Walt Whitman, 1854