{"product_id":"cosmic-connections-poetry-in-the-age-of-disenchantment-9780674303591","title":"Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThe Language Animal, \u003c\/i\u003e exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Language Animal, \u003c\/i\u003e Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there was more to be said. \u003ci\u003eCosmic Connections\u003c\/i\u003e extends Taylor's exploration of innovations in language by turning to Romantic and post-Romantic responses to disenchantment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fall of cosmic order left Romantics groping toward a new meaning of life. They turned to the symbols and music of poetry to recover contact with reality beyond fragmented existence, developing aesthetic forms that post-Romantics have carried into the present day. Taylor takes us from Hölderlin, Novalis, Keats, and Shelley to Hopkins, Rilke, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé, and on to Eliot, Milosz, and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn seeking understanding and a new 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674303591","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45342488690825,"sku":"9780674303591","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1f7bc091-bccc-4a39-b079-2c234508abb1.jpg?v=1772516740","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/cosmic-connections-poetry-in-the-age-of-disenchantment-9780674303591","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}