Poetry and the Fate of the Senses PETS/ANIMALS With humorous and insightful solutions

With humorous and insightful solutions

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Poetry and the Fate of the Senses PETS/ANIMALS With humorous and insightful solutionsWhat is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, Susan Stewart traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in our culture. The task of poetry, she tells us, is to counter the loneliness of the mind, or to help it glean, out of the darkness of