Kevin Farnham wrote:
> To create significant art, one needs a lot of time, leisure for study,
> and the bills already paid.
The locus classicus is Juvenal 7: poetry comes from ""a care-free mind"
(Anxietate carens animus). Cf. Spenser: "The vaunted verse a vacant
head demaundes, / Ne wont with crabbed care the Muses dwell" ("October,"
100-1). To illustrate, Juvenal gives the example of Virgil: "Had Virgil
lacked a slave, or a decent room, / All of the snakes would have fallen
from the Fury's hair; / The trumpet been mute, no grave note sounded."
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Dr. David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [log in to unmask]
English Department Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c
East Carolina University Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude Fauchet
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