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 |