That nation is full of promise and pride and power, and there is plenty of
leisure time for the production of art and literature, and artists flood to
that nation--it is a magnet for the arts, using them to glorify and
legitimate its climb to that pinnacle. At that time it has produced,
usually a large, literate population that can consume this poetry--people
aren't concerned with things like food gathering and everyday survival, nor
are they preoccupied with plague, ruin and barbarians at the gates. I
suppose you are speaking of Athnes, Rome, The British Empire--what about
societies like Sparta, The Mongols, the Soviet Union?
Chris Hayden
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>Subject: Is the Muse an imperialist?
>Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:49:57 PDT
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> Why is it that a nation's greatest age of poetry is almost always
>concurrent with or immediately subsequent to its greatest age of
>imperial expansion?
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