Ullrich Langer investigates why lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity from Virgil to Flaubert.

"From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our huma

"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, an