TY - BOOK AU - Poe,Edgar Allan TI - Eureka: A Prose Poem AV - PS PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Cosmology N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka:_A_Prose_Poem; Release date is 2010-04-18; Produced by Meredith Bach, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32037 ER -