# Science and poetry

Author: Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979

Genre: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78306

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Science+and+poetry+Richards&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything._--Matthew Arnold.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-poetry-78306/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-poetry-78306/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-poetry-78306/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-poetry-78306/chapters/4/index.md)