Eureka (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) which he subtitled "e;A Prose Poem"e;, though it has also been subtitled as "e;An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe"e;. Adapted from a lecture he had presented, Eureka describes Poe's intuitive conception of the nature of the universe with no antecedent scientific work done to reac...