Donoghue quotes Matthew Arnold: "Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." This brings to mind something Burckhardt says in "On the Historical Consideration of Poetry": "First and foremost, poetry appears in all its significance as the voice of religion." To propose poetry as a substitute for religion, as Arnold does, is like imagining a flower without any stems or roots.
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