I recently listened to an episode of the Literary Life Podcast, Episode 249: “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by S. T. Coleridge, Part 2, where they discussed the Romantics in light of their skepticism about Reason. Two of the works they mentioned were William Blake’s Mock on, Mock on and this one:

Sonnet—To Science (Edgar Allan Poe)

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

Now we have long beaten the drum for the idea that the central philosophy of the Anglosphere–what, in fact, saved us from the disastrous Rationalist experimentation of the Continent–was our hostility to the materialist Cartesian metaphysics that convinced so many that they could know reality by application of brute Reason alone. But we have, perhaps, given authors too little credit and certainly the Romantics almost none. The pod hosts and their discussion and citations afford an opportunity to begin to correct that. Certainly you’d be hard put to find a better literary representation of the Anglosphere’s characteristic dubiousness about scientific claims than these poems. Indeed, in Poe’s celebration of the supernatural he developed an entire genre–horror/gothic–that depends on the idea that there are simply things in this world that are beyond our ken.

Now, we might think that his great detective, C. Auguste Dupin, offers a counterpoint, given that his crime-solving depended on “ratiocination,” but consider this section of The Purloined Letter:

"But is this really the poet?" I asked. "There are two brothers, I know; and both have attained reputation in letters. The Minister I believe has written learnedly on the Differential Calculus. He is a mathematician, and no poet."

"You are mistaken; I know him well; he is both. As poet and mathematician, he would reason well; as mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect."

"You surprise me," I said, "by these opinions, which have been contradicted by the voice of the world. You do not mean to set at naught the well-digested idea of centuries. The mathematical reason has long been regarded as the reason par excellence.

"'Il y a a parier,'" replied Dupin, quoting from Chamfort, "'que toute idee publique, toute convention recue, est une sottise, car elle a convenu au plus grand nombre.' The mathematicians, I grant you, have done their best to promulgate the popular error to which you allude, and which is none the less an error for its promulgation as truth. With an art worthy a better cause, for example, they have insinuated the term 'analysis' into application to algebra. The French are the originators of this particular deception; but if a term is of any importance --if words derive any value from applicability --then 'analysis' conveys 'algebra' about as much as, in Latin, 'ambitus' implies 'ambition,' 'religio' religion or 'homines honesti,' a set of honorable men."

"You have a quarrel on hand, I see," said I, "with some of the algebraists of Paris; but proceed."

"I dispute the availability, and thus the value, of that reason which is cultivated in any especial form other than the abstractly logical. I dispute, in particular, the reason educed by mathematical study. The mathematics are the science of form and quantity; mathematical reasoning is merely logic applied to observation upon form and quantity. The great error lies in supposing that even the truths of what is called pure algebra, are abstract or general truths. And this error is so egregious that I am confounded at the universality with which it has been received. Mathematical axioms are not axioms of general truth. What is true of relation --of form and quantity --is often grossly false in regard to morals, for example. In this latter science it is very usually untrue that the aggregated parts are equal to the whole. In chemistry also the axiom fails. In the consideration of motive it fails; for two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other mathematical truths which are only truths within the limits of relation. But the mathematician argues, from his finite truths, through habit, as if they were of an absolutely general applicability --as the world indeed imagines them to be. Bryant, in his very learned 'Mythology,' mentions an analogous source of error, when he says that 'although the Pagan fables are not believed, yet we forget ourselves continually, and make inferences from them as existing realities.' With the algebraists, however, who are Pagans themselves, the 'Pagan fables' are believed, and the inferences are made, not so much through lapse of memory, as through an unaccountable addling of the brains. In short, I never yet encountered the mere mathematician who could be trusted out of equal roots, or one who did not clandestinely hold it as a point of his faith that x squared + px was absolutely and unconditionally equal to q. Say to one of these gentlemen, by way of experiment, if you please, that you believe occasions may occur where x squared + px is not altogether equal to q, and, having made him understand what you mean, get out of his reach as speedily as convenient, for, beyond doubt, he will endeavor to knock you down.

Though coincidental, the dismissal of “the algebraists of Paris” could hardly be more on point.

(Reviewed:28-Oct-24)

Grade: (A+) Orrin C. Judd

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    -ESSAY: The most overrated writer in America (Naomi Kanakia, Mar 18, 2025, Woman of Letters)
    -ESSAY: The Post-Millennial Poe, or, Edgar Allan Holmes?: In life, Edgar Allan Poe was best known as a literary critic. Today, he’s best remembered for his disquieting tales…but that may be changing. (Matthew Wills, February 7, 2025, J-Stor Daily)
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    -ESSAY: Close reading of “Sonnet—To Science”: This paper was written for 21L.004 (Introduction to Poetry), taught by Prof. Tapscott. (Kyle Miller)
    -ESSAY: Emerson, Poe, and the War on Science (Michial Farmer, Feb 12, 2010, The Christian Humanist)
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    -ESSAY: 4 Must-Read Works by Edgar Allan Poe (& Why You Should Read Them): Edgar Allan Poe was a master of Gothic literature. Although his stories are filled with gloom and mystery, they also contain universal truths. (Andrew Olsen, 4/27/25, The Collector)
    -ESSAY: Poe Man’s Immortality: The great author lives on in comic books, cartoons, and wherever dark secrets of the human heart are written. (Edward Lawrence, September/October 2008, Humanities)
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    -ESSAY: EDGAR ALLAN POE'S BID TO BECOME A REAL-LIFE CRIME SOLVER: Having created a popular fictional detective, Poe set out to apply his theories of reason to the day's biggest mysteries. (ALEX HORTIS, 3/05/24, CrimeReads)
    -ESSAY: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (Sean Fitzpatrick, April 19th, 2023, Imaginative Conservative)
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    -ESSAY: On Edgar Allan Poe: Crypts, entombments, physical morbidity: these nightmares figure prominently in Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, a fictional world in which the word that recurs most crucially is horror. (Marilynne Robinson, 2/05/12, NY Review of Books)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: The Poe Mystery Case (Richard Wilbur, July 13, 1967, NY Review of Books)
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    -ESSAY: Edgar Allan Poe & the Mask of the 20th Century (David Gosselin, January 18th, 2022, Imaginative Conservative)
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