Sonnet—To Science (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- First Published: 1829
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Science or scientists, Romanticism
The Poem
In Edgar Allan Poe’s later collections, “Sonnet—To Science” appears with a footnote describing it as one of “the crude compositions of my earliest boyhood.” The same footnote excuses its republication with reference to “private reasons—some of which have reference to the sin of plagiarism, and others to the date of Tennyson’s first poems.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, had been born in the same year as Poe and had published his first volume of poetry, Poems by Two Brothers (in association with his brother Charles), in 1827, the same year in which...
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