In this anthology 16 authors address the enchantment of education and the way learning can be approached to incorporate aspects of knowing that have become occluded in the wake of the Enlightenment mentality.
Contributing to the anthology with chapter eleven, I approach enchantment through significant 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 this enriching legacy.
Through recognition of this potent symbolic tapestry, 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”
