Defensa de la poesia

We live in an unfortunate time, since poetry has been cornered in a society in which the purported reason has won the game over the imagination. As the author says, poets "have abdicated the civic crown in the hands of reasoners and technicians", but there is no doubt that poets have always been the unrecognized legislators of the world, the promoters of the revolutions of thought, and that poetry is a source of wisdom and pleasure for those who want to get fed up with it. Why are Homer, Dante or Milton divine? Why, in spite of all the miseries of humanity, has poetry never ceased to exist? Why, despite the annoyance he often does to the insipid, does he continue to make the lives of many people happy? You will find the answers to these questions in this captivating book.