In this anthology 16 authors focus on the re- enchantment of education and the way learning can be approached to incorporate aspects of knowing that have become occluded in the wake of post Enlightenment thinking.
Contributing to the anthology with chapter eleven, I approach enchantment through aspects of the poetic heritage of the Western esoteric tradition; from the Celtic bards through to Blake and Whitman, and suggest that the modern definition of poetry, indicates a cultural disinheritance of an enriched legacy.
Through recognition of this legacy and its loss, an opportunity arises to take up the mythic thread and keep on weaving …
“Nowadays is a civilisation in which the prime emblems of poetry are dishonoured. In which serpent, lions and eagle belong to the circus tent; ox,salmon and boar to the cannery, racehorse and greyhound to the betting ring, and the sacred grove to the sawmill”
