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Wonder Wednesday (on Thursday)

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Wonder Wednesday (on Thursday)

Why poetry needs science, and science needs poetry

Maya C. Popa
Jun 29, 2023
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Happy Wednesday Thursday, friends…

In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge argues that “nothing can permanently please, which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.”[1] He is reflecting on the role of form in literary works and means, perhaps, that there should be a plausible, organic relationship between a poem’s content and t…

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