Taylor, Charles
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674296084
- author:
- Taylor, Charles
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 640
- Dimensions:
- 23.6 x 16 x 5 centimetres (0.70
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Poetry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Charles Taylor's Cosmic Connections is a major new work that explores the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. Building on his 2016 book The Language Animal, Taylor delves deeper into the ways in which poetry responds to the challenges of disenchantment and innovation in language. Through a wide-ranging exploration of poets from Hölderlin to Eliot, Taylor examines how the Romantics and post-Romantics used poetry to recover contact with reality and find new meaning in life. He argues that poetry is not just a pleasurable presentation of ideas, but a powerful means of persuasion that persuades us through the experience of connection. By exploring the ways in which poetry has been used to respond to the challenges of the modern world, Taylor sheds new light on the enduring power of poetry to inspire and transform us.
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