Darwin, Bureaucratese, and the Decline of Poetry
I want to begin by asking a simple question: Why is it that poetry has, as Anthony Esolen said, “almost no purchase upon the popular mind”? Writing in his autobiography, Charles Darwin presents us with a hint:: …my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or […]
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