found-poem
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William Harvey (1578–1657), the first person to describe the circulation of blood, would not think of himself as a poet, but he was a writer, a philosopher (a follower of Aristotle), and a performer, conducting public dissections. But I think that I have found a poem in Harvey’s great work, Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis…
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I found this poem in Virginia Woolf’s (1882-1941) marvellous essay A Room of One’s Own. Some call it the best essay of the 20th century. Her topic is “women and fiction,” but she wanders widely and wonderfully. Her essay, which is based on a talk she gave at Girton College, Cambridge, is funny and much more enjoyable to…