Wonder Wednesday (on Thursday)

Why poetry needs science, and science needs poetry

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…