Ethical Power from "the Human Heart by Which We Live"

In a way, this article is a brief thematic summarization of the recently-held Sino-British Conference on ethical literary criticism - "Ethical Power in Chinese and English Romantic Poetry" - characterized by stimulating dialogical approaches. It also serves as an introduction to Project P-O-E-T-R-Y as conducted at the Confucius Institute of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan CI) in the UK, and showcases one of the Project's significant outcomes - Julie Callan's forthcoming book of poetry, which is titled I Could be Chinese, and imbued with intercultural implications. Furthermore, this article attempts to verbalize the very source of ethical power - "the human heart by which we live" (in William Wordsworth's words), and to emphasize its functions to reconnect, to recollect, to revive, to recreate, and to reshape.