> I agree that under modernism the contemporary arts
>abandoned their audiences, or shall we re-phrase that, the audiences
>for the contemporary arts abandoned them. It marks modernism out--
>nothing like it has happened before or since.
This is a kind of generalised and accepted wisdom, but I wonder how true
it really is...
Enzensberger suggests the current crisis in literary authority is to do
with the demise of the bourgeois class which in fact fostered it since
the Enlightenment, and that we're now returning to a kind of medieaval
state, in which poetry is known and loved by a very few. A different
kind of elite, perhaps, not so predicated on class and income, but on the
surprising occurance in an individual soul of a love of poems.
Best
Alison
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