Scholarly annotated edition of Poe's Eureka
Stuart Levine was a professor emeritus of English at the
University of Kansas. His many books include Edgar Poe: Seer and
Craftsman. Susan Levine was an assistant dean of the
Graduate College at the University of Kansas and coeditor of The
Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and other works.
"Eureka, Poe's testament, the synthesis of his analytic ideas, offers itself as a treatise on nothing less than cosmology. Having begun as a scientific lecture, it winds up as an apocalyptic revelation... It may be read as a rationalistic counterstatement to the metaphysics of Transcendentalism, or as a pioneering experiment in the embryonic genre of science fiction... 'Eureka!' is his heart-cry. 'I have found it!' he breathlessly seems to announce." -- Harry Levin in The Power of Blackness
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