Science and Literature


        The links below will provide you with the text of numerous poems which reflect upon the ramifications of scientific progress.
An Anatomy of the World (excerpt) by John Donne
from University of Toronto English Library
Samson Agonistes by John Milton
from Dartmouth University's Milton Reading Room
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
from University of Toronto English Library
Prayers of Steel by Carl Sandburg
from Bartleby Library
In Memoriam by Alfred lord Tennyson
from University of Toronto English Library
The Excursion by William Wordsworth
from Bartleby Library
To a Locomotive in Winter
When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer  by Walt Whitman
from Bartleby Library
"I Like To See It Lap the Miles" by Emily Dickinson
from American Poems
Sonnet -- To Science by Edgar Allan Poe
from NYU Medical Humanities