Lost Classics: Wilhelm Dilthey, "The Imagination of the Poet"
Please join the Workshop in Poetics for our annual Lost Classics event, in which we revisit a neglected but important contribution to poetic theory and criticism.
This year's event is on the German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), whose work on hermeneutics influenced important strains of continental philosophy, from Martin Heidegger to Paul Ric艙ur. We will discuss Dilthey鈥檚 1887 essay, 鈥淭he Imagination of the Poet: Elements for a Poetics,鈥 focusing on the subsection, 鈥淎n Attempt to Explain Poetic Creativity Psychologically.鈥 Wide-ranging, interstitial, and deeply invested in the psychology of the production and reception of art, the essay supplies crucial links from Romantic aesthetics to modern hermeneutics.
(Please find the essay under "Attachments")