Lectures and Essays

by Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock, William Kingdon Clifford

Book Overview

Lectures and Essays, VOLUME 1: IT is an open secret to the few who know it, but a mystery and a stumbling-block to the many, that Science and Poetry are own sisters; insomuch that in those branches of scientific inquiry which are most abstract, most formal, and most remote from the grasp of the ordinary sensible imagination, a higher power of imagination akin to the creative insight of the poet is most needed and most fruitful of lasting work. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482757834
• ISBN13: 9781482757835
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"