.....Perhaps the greatest disappointment is that poetry has remained almost entirely science-free — determined, indeed, to translate new experiences back into the myths and legends of the past (witness not only all the new translations of literary classics such as Beowulf and the Iliad but also the number of lyric poems that continue to draw on the mythological and the legendary). Where are the poems that take as their subject the great discoveries of the twentieth century: special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the double helix? Where is the interdisciplinary osmosis? Where, indeed, is the osmosis, or the fossil record or the cosmological constant?
..........— Richard King (1971 - ), English Freelance journalist, reviewer and poet. "
Flesh and Stardust: C. P. Snow's Two Cultures Fifty Years On," Monday, July 19, 2010 [An abridged version of this essay was published in
Meanjin, Vol. 69, No. 2, 2010].