Poetic Enlightenment
Subtitle: Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781848934047
Subjects: Literature and science; Poetry, modern, history and criticism; Enlightenment; Great britain, intellectual life
Description: The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge - anthropology, linguistics, psychology - the ancient and innate art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of communicating this philosophy of human science.