Text: Anonymous, “[Notice of Poe's Eureka],” Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat (Brooklyn, NY), vol. 7, no. 180, July 31, 1848, p. 2, col. 4

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Eureka, or the Universe: a prose poem by Edgar A. Poe. New York: Geo. P. Putnam. — The author of this little book, it has been said, is laboring under disease, which is soon to carry him to that bourne whence no traveller returns. His book is, therefore, a sort of dying bequest to the public, which he wishes to be judged as a poem after he is dead. It is a book of thoughts about God and man; mortality and immortality; life and death; written in the strong, musing, and poetic style for which the author is remarkable, and presenting a variety of new and startling thoughts in a garb which such things have not been wont to wear. It is for sale in this city at T. D. Smith's 202 Fulton street.