The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820 (The Enlightenment World)

by TomJones (Editor), Tom Jones (Editor)

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  2016

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  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 art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.