Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
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"Eureka: A Prose Poem" by Edgar Allan Poe is a non-fiction work published in 1848. Adapted from a lecture, this ambitious essay presents Poe's intuitive vision of the universe's nature, exploring the physical and spiritual cosmos, man's relationship with God, and the soul's destiny beyond death. Poe considered it his greatest achievement—more important than Newton's discovery of gravity. Though contemporaries found it absurd, some ideas surprisingly anticipate modern cosmology. The work blends
science, metaphysics, and Poe's trademark ratiocination in an unprecedented philosophical meditation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 |
|---|---|
| Title | Eureka: A Prose Poem |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka:_A_Prose_Poem |
| Credits |
Produced by Meredith Bach, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 44.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Cosmology |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 32037 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-32037-3 |
| Release Date | Apr 18, 2010 |
| Last Update | Sep 30, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1936 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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