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In 1976, Julian Jaynes proposed that the language of poetry and prophecy originated in the right, "god-side" of the brain. Current neuroscientific evidence confirms the role of the right hemisphere in poetry, a sensed presence, and paranormal claims as well as in mental imbalanc…
Explores right-brain dominance in the atypical minds of poetic geniuses, such as Blake, Keats, Hugo, Rilke, Yeats, Merrill, Plath, and Hughes, by way of the visible signs in their lives, their beliefs, and their shared practices.