Best Poetics
A Defence of Poetry is an essay written by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821. Composed in Italy, the work was a response to an essay by his friend Thomas Love Peacock that had criticized the value of poetry. In his defence, Shelley argues that poetry is a catalyst for moral imaginat...
Michael Herzfeld is an American anthropologist who served as a professor at Harvard University, known for his extensive ethnographic work in Greece and Italy. He introduced and developed the concept of "cultural intimacy," exploring how nations manage internal contradictions and shared identities al...
Paul Friedrich was an American anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of language and poetics associated with the University of Chicago. His research included the Purépecha language and political life in Michoacán, Mexico, as well as broader questions about grammar, meaning, metaphor, and poetic lang...
