Thanks for a another fine, provocative read. I wouldn’t attempt to articulate an answer to “why poetry.” But I would contend that if you read Keats’ To Autumn you will experience the answer.
Great post. I wonder whether the purported genealogy gets the chronology right though. Scientific poetry were still extremely popular in the beginning of the 19th century. Delille scientific poèmes were a best seller translated in 23 languages. Cf. Eg. https://laviedesidees.fr/Les-tres-riches-heures-de-la
Thanks for a another fine, provocative read. I wouldn’t attempt to articulate an answer to “why poetry.” But I would contend that if you read Keats’ To Autumn you will experience the answer.
Great post. I wonder whether the purported genealogy gets the chronology right though. Scientific poetry were still extremely popular in the beginning of the 19th century. Delille scientific poèmes were a best seller translated in 23 languages. Cf. Eg. https://laviedesidees.fr/Les-tres-riches-heures-de-la
Wouldn't be surprising for a philosopher (Kivy) to have done the genealogy largely "a priori"!