Riley Mcguire

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My research interests are in the philosophy of poetry; in particular, I am interested in "poetic knowledge," or the kind of knowledge to which poetry enjoys unique or privileged access. My approach to this question is influenced especially by the philosophy of poetry of Jacques Maritain and the philosophy of language and poetry of Martin Heidegger. Other intellectual passions of mine would be comparative philology, ancient and mediaeval languages, stigmeology and grammar, Victorian literature, and aesthetics and ethics. Key writers who have shaped me, would be Jacques Maritain, Martin Heidegger, Aristotle, J.R.R. Tolkien, St Thomas Aquinas, Walter Pater, and Josef Pieper.