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Poet as legislator : ウィキペディア英語版 | Poet as legislator The theme of poet as legislator reached its grandiose peak in the Romantic era,〔C. Prendergast ed., ''Cultural Materialism'' (1995) p. 222〕 epitomised in the view of the lonely, alienated poet as 'unacknowledged legislator' to the whole world.〔Richard Holmes, ''Dr Johnson and Mr Savage'' (1994) p. 51〕 However the concept had a long prehistory in Western culture, with classical figures like Orpheus or Solon being appealed to as precedents for the poet's civilising role.〔D. Griffin, ''Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain'' (2005) p. 70〕 ==Classical origins==
Plato's opposition to poets in his ideal Republic was predicated on the contemporary existence of Homeric expounders who claimed that "a man ought to regulate the tenour of his whole life by this poet's directions".〔J. L. Davies/D. J. Vaughan trans., ''The Republic of Plato'' (1908) p. 352〕 Plato only allowed the already censured poet to guide the young, to be an acknowledged legislator at the price of total external control.〔E. B. Castle, ''Ancient Education and Today'' (1969) p. 91〕 Less threatened by the poetic role, the Romans by contrast saw poetry, with Horace, as primarily pleasing, and only secondarily as instructive.〔M. H. Abrams, ''The Mirror and the Lamp'' (1971) p. 16〕
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