Eureka, A Prose Poem (Green Integer)

The last of Edgar Allan Poe’s books to be published during his lifetime, Eureka, A Prose Poem is a strange book indeed, particularly within the context of his desire for the work to be judged only as a poem. Part scientific tract, part crazed speculation, Eureka reveals the heart of Poe’s aesthetic and literary concerns.<br/>Poe’s concept has a great deal in common with the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe.<br/>"…I propose to show that this Oneness is a principle abundantly sufficient to account for the constitution, the existing phænomena and the plainly inevitable annihilation of at least the material Universe."<br/>His exploration of the stars, planets, gravity, soul, body, and God is a remarkable phantasia of scientific thinking.<br/>Rarely available in a single volume edition, Eureka presents Poe as a brilliant American intellect, attempting to grapple with the most complex ideas.