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The Big Four Asteroids in Verse

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It seems appropriate to quote from Karl Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), a key figure in the Romantic movement that was examined in the previous chapter. In his own scintillating words, the philosophical nature of poetry encompasses that “unformed and unconscious poetry which stirs in planets, shines in light.” (Schlegel 1800) Although many of the poems in this chapter fail to rise to such philosophic heights, the very existence of so much poetry that incorporates the asteroids stands as a supreme testimony to their place in the arts and popular culture.

The entire history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: All art should become science, and all science become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

Karl Friedrich Schlegel (1797)

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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). The Big Four Asteroids in Verse. In: Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32875-1_5

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