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Charles Taylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment, Harvard University Press, 2024, 640pp., $37.95 (hbk) ISBN 9780674296084.
Reviewed by Christopher Sauder, Providence College
In Charles Taylor’s work, poetry has consistently served as a paradigmatic example of protest against the modern diremption of nature and spirit, as well as a template for how the two sides of this division might be realigned or—in the parlance of his new book—reconnected. As the capstone to an oeuvre of thousands of pages, Taylor has delivered another monumental volume of 620 pages, a book of immodest ambition but sincere and straightforward execution, composed largely of textual analyses of passages from Taylor’s canon of authors, familiar to us from Sources of the Self.
The book begins with three general, theoretical chapters that introduce the conceptual framework of the book before proceeding to the analyses of specific authors, which will occupy the bulk of the…
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