Science in Poetry

Abstract

FOLLOWING upon an article in NATURE of August 26 entitled “Nature and Science in Poetry”, Mr. E. Heron-Alien contributed to our issue of September 16 a letter in which he gave further examples of poems on scientific themes, among them being an “exquisite and delicate fantasy” which he attributed to the late Sir Arthur Shipley. Mr. H. S. Webster, 53 Loraine Road, London, N.W.7, has, however, written to Mr. Heron-Alien to point out that the verses were from a poem entitled “Solomon Redivivus, 1886” by Constance Naden, published in the volume of her complete poetical works, reviewed in NATTJBE of October 18, 1894. The poem consists of sixteen quatrains, three of which read as follows:—