The question at the heart of Poetry's Nature is "How is poetry a living art?" Based on Stewart's 2023 Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford, it explores four paradigms that illuminate poetry's relation to other natural phenomena. By reframing poetry in its relation to nature, Stewart hop...

The question at the heart of Poetry's Nature is "How is poetry a living art?" Based on Stewart's 2023 Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford, it explores four paradigms that illuminate poetry's relation to other natural phenomena. By reframing poetry in its relation to nature, Stewart hopes to reframe our relation to the world in which we live.