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'I don't suppose there was ever a time when poets weren't concerned to make a splash among their friends and in society with their writings. I base this remark on some familiarity with comments by Persius, Horace, Martial, and a number of Greek and Chinese writers, who all appear to lament their craft's having fallen on lean times, or who make reference - usually dismissive - to less skilful contemporaries. In an era when Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love were not admired traits in an individual, this might have done well enough. but the persistence of an element of competition among poets in particular leads me to wonder why it should be so, throughout the Renaissance and an Age of Enlightenment down to our own age.' (Introduction)
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Cold Turkey in Cantina