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Eureka, A Prose Poem: Or A Cosmological Inquiry by Edgar Allan Poe 

Albert Einstein called Poe’s Eureka, “A beautiful achievement of an unusually independent mind.”

Written as a lecture and published in 1848 (though not well-received at the time), this prose poem is an example of Poe’s genius. The work is a brilliant demonstration of the value of intuition in scientific discovery and the nature of the universe.

From the Preface:

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.

What I here propound is true:- * therefore it cannot die:- or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the Life Everlasting."

Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead.

E. A. P.

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