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Philosophical poems

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De rerum natura

didactic poem by Lucretius

Prometheus Unbound

lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eureka: A Prose Poem

1848 essay by Edgar Allan Poe

book by William Wordsworth

poem by Walt Whitman

An Essay on Man

poem by Alexander Pope

philosophical poetry

mystical Scientific Poem

Love's Philosophy

poem by Percy Shelley

poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

thumb|Sinners in the second bolgia, as illustrated by Stradanus. In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of the Divine Comedy, Malebolge ( ; ; ), or Fraud, is the eighth circle of Hell. It is a large, funnel-shaped cavern, itself divided into ten concentric circular trenches or ditches, each called a or 'ditch'). Long causeway bridges run from the outer circumference of Malebolge to its center, pictured as spokes on a wheel. At the center of Malebolge is the ninth and final circle of hell, known as Cocytus.