Scott M. Reznick is assistant professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh specializing in nineteenth-century American literature, particularly the intersections between literature and moral and political philosophy. He is also a founding faculty member at the University of Austin.
A renewed attention to the American literary tradition may be one of the most important imaginative and spiritual exercises for restoring our liberal way of life.
Reading and interpreting poetry offers a unique way to cultivate ethical knowledge and therefore bears on collective, and not just individual, life.