... on Aesthetic Education for the 21st Century Tracie CostantinoUniversity of Georgia, USAandBoyd White (Eds.)McGill University, CanadaEssays on Aesthetic Education for the 21st Century, ... touch[es] the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic nature of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed. The form of the poem, in other words, ... Scarry, 1999). The focus of these writers varies considerably one from the other, but the underlying message is that there is a human instinct for the pursuit of beauty, even in the face of continuing...