Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press. 2024. 640 pp. Hardcover. $37.95 Although British Romanticism was born out of the crucible of the French Revolution, it also represents the first great...
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