Poe’s vision of the cosmos and the art it inspired.Alfred Jensen, Physical Optics, 1975, oil on canvas, 7'2" x 12'9". Image via Pace GallerySince adolescence, Edgar Allan Poe had been picking fights with science. His second collection of poetry, published when he was all of twenty, opened with a mischievous sonnet needling what he called... <a href="Read">http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/01/the-machinery-of-the-universe/">Read More</a> <span class="link">»</span>