Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering Eureka
Eureka: A Prose Poem was intended by the author to be the governing philosophical manifesto that would guide the spirit of the Stylus and was based upon a series of February 1848 lectures delivered by Poe in New York entitled “The Cosmography of the Universe”. A newspaper covering the lecture stated this directly:
PBI: This is steaming shit hot serious stuff. Read with care.
