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100			_aTaylor, Charles
245			_aCosmic connections : poetry in the age of disenchantment
260			_bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2024 _aCambridge :
300			_axi, 620 p. ; _c25 cm
365			_b1882.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index. English, with quotations in German and French.
520			_aThe Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there was much more to be said. Cosmic Connections continues Taylor's exploration of Romantic and post-Romantic responses to disenchantment and innovations in language. Reacting to the fall of cosmic orders that were at once metaphysical and moral, the Romantics used the symbols and music of poetry to recover contact with reality beyond fragmented existence. They sought to overcome disenchantment and groped toward a new meaning of life. Their accomplishments have been extended by post-Romantic generations into the present day. Taylor's magisterial work takes us from Hölderlin, Novalis, Keats, and Shelley to Hopkins, Rilke, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé, and on to Eliot, Miłosz, and beyond. In seeking deeper understanding and a different orientation to life, the language of poetry is not merely a pleasurable presentation of doctrines already elaborated elsewhere. Rather, Taylor insists, poetry persuades us through the experience of connection. The resulting conviction is very different from that gained through the force of argument. By its very nature, poetry's reasoning will often be incomplete, tentative, and enigmatic. But at the same time, its insight is too moving--too obviously true--to be ignored.
650			_aLiterature Philosophy
650			_aPoetry
650			_aModern 18th century
650			_aHistory and criticism
650			_aRomanticism
650			_aForm of expression
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