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Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Woolf stand out as two authors who were particularly troubled by the increasing prestige of science, technology, and mathematics. Their work reflects an unease about the possibility that science, technology, and mathematics might come to dominate Western culture. We also find in their work a concern that scientific and mathematical precision might suppress other values. Ezra Pound, however, sought to borrow the concept of precision from science and mathematics. Pound hoped that he and like-minded poets could thereby reclaim for poetry the respect in which it had been held in former centuries.
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Ahearn, B. (2020). To Be Precise. In: Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36544-8_2
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