ABSTRACT
This opening chapter of The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities (authors: John Burns, Matthew Caleb Flamm, William Gahan, and Stephanie Quinn, Routledge, 2021) provides an account of and historicizes the quarrel between philosophy and poetry as originating in the writings of Plato. Examining the meaning and origins of the quarrel as rooted in Plato’s Republic , author Matthew Caleb Flamm indicates where his own outlook intersects with authoritative scholarly interpretations and comes to the following conclusion: poetry and philosophy stand at opposite, by no means necessarily opposed, poles of language.
