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Title: Eureka:
A Prose Poem

Author: Edgar A. Poe

Release Date: April 18, 2010 [EBook #32037]

Language: English

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EUREKA:
A PROSE POEM.

BY

EDGAR A. POE.

NEW-YORK:
GEO. P. PUTNAM,
OF LATE FIRM OF "WILEY & PUTNAM,"
155 BROADWAY.

MDCCCXLVIII.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,
BY EDGAR A. POE,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the
Southern District of New-York.

LEAVITT, TROW & CO Prs.,
33 Ann-street.

WITH VERY PROFOUND RESPECT,
This Work is Dedicated
TO
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.

PREFACE.

To the few who love me and whom I love--to those who feel rather than to
those who think--to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in
the only realities--I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of
Truth-Teller, but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting
it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone:--let
us say as a Romance; or, if I be not urging too lofty a claim, as a
Poem.

_What I here propound is true_:--therefore it cannot die:--or if by any
means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to the
Life Everlasting."

Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged
after I am dead.

E. A. P.

EUREKA:

AN ESSAY ON THE MATERIAL AND SP