Reviews for Francis Bacon and scientific poetry

The average rating for Francis Bacon and scientific poetry based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-11 00:00:00 Thomas Debruyckere Bierds was my professor for two weeks in my freshman year of college. I'm biased to her work, perhaps; she was the first college professor to indicate i had any future in poetry. But hers is truly ethereal. Sometimes historical, always pointed, sometimes removed from herself and yet always honest. Her verse circles the seemingly unpoetic realms of science and mathematics, with a perhaps curious obsession with Gregor Mendel. I remember picking up First Hand again years later, stumbling across "A Sonnet Crown for Two Voices" when I was just being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition; I felt lucky to have done that.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-08-29 00:00:00 Peter S. Hamilton Highly lyrical, scarcely any narrative, which renders it inaccessible for some readers, I'm afraid to say. A poet's poet, to be sure. I didn't find the content terribly memorable (though I'm a scientist by trade and her introduction read "this book rests most frequently at the inscape of science"), but the language was admirably luscious and sophisticated.