Analysis of Greenblatt's Preface in "The Swerve"

"I marveled—I continue to marvel—that these perceptions were fully articulated in a work written more than two thousand years ago. The line between this work and modernity is not direct: nothing is ever so simple. There were innumerable forgettings, disappearances, recoveries, dismissals, distortions, challenges, transformations, and renewed forgettings. And yet the vital connection is there. Hidden behind the worldview I recognize as my own is an ancient poem, a poem once lost, apparently irrevocably, and then found."

In this paragraph, from the preface of The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, the author shows his writing style and his ideas. I disagree with the way he writes, and the whole point of his story. He says himself that the connection between his book and what is has to do with modern day is not clear. However, what is the point of writing a story in which the readers have to put their trust into what the author wants you think, and now what your naturally led to believe? He wants to tie together things that never were connected in the first place, such as transformations and forgettings. So far, it seems as if he is telling us that these things he's writing about are connected, however he offers no explanation as to the actual connection that he finds. The bridge between the facts he states and the truth we see on the other side is incomplete. Then, he declares the view in his book as the "worldview", and how a lost poem was found. How do we, as readers, learn to trust some guy who has pulled out a never seen before poem and then launch off to a giant conclusion about the history of the world? I find it preposterous. For these reasons, I disagree with Greenblatt's style of writing and how he expects us to believe in a meaningless document.