Abdul-Qādir Bēdil

And these are two books that, as he says, deal with the first person experience of the beginning and the end of life.

Tim also is unusual in collaborating on comparative projects with literary scholars from other traditions, with articles on the Popol Vuh and Paradise Lost, the Sufi poet Bidel de la Vie, and an upcoming book on early modern Persian and English poetry.

And he is twice the recipient of the John Donne Society's Distinguished Publication Award.

Tim, we're very happy to have you with us today.

So in the last chapter, you talk about Locke.

So I just wanted to ask you maybe to say a little more about how you think that sort of way of thinking, right, or like that... that framework of a kind of a thought experiment or an experiment imagination also informs modern philosophy.

So it doesn't just stay within the confines of, you know, what we think of as poetry.

Yeah.