Fascinating work on the relationship between poetry and the house, especially in terms of the home. Home is concerned with familiarity and intimacy, but may also be confounding. Bachelard's main contention is that the house structures much of our consciousness and how we think about spaces and he finds this most clearly expressed in poetry, rather than any other cultural work. Definitely worth reading for anyone interested in our understanding of spaces.

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