Poetry against Torture: Criticism, History and the Human ISBN: 9789888052653 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Hong Kong University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Language & Literature;
This book shows that poetry, historicism, and humanism together make possible civilizations that afford the best chance for the human species to develop, for individuals to perfect themselves, and for the hard earned achievement of making the human historical to persist.