Download or read book The Poetic Enlightenment written by Rowan Boyson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.