
Too often poets are seen as favouring the spiritual over the mundanely material – such as when John Keats accused Isaac Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow. But what’s not to love about multiple refractions from suspended droplets ?

Too often poets are seen as favouring the spiritual over the mundanely material – such as when John Keats accused Isaac Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow. But what’s not to love about multiple refractions from suspended droplets ?