'On reading Shelley's A Defence of Poetry, the question insistently occurs why there is no similar A Defence of Science written of equal endowment.'
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Poetry and science are incompatible.
'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'.
What is the central argument of the speaker?
How do the patterns of creativity displayed by scientists differ from those displayed by poets?
What do you infer from Darwin's comment on his indifference to literature as he advanced in years?
'It is not an accident that the most discrimination literary criticism of Shelley's thought and work is by a distinguished scientist, Desmond King-Hele.' How does this statement bring out the meeting point of poetry and science?
How does Shelley's attitude to science differ from that of Wordsworth and Keats?