IN “LITERARY REPRESSION IN A LIBERAL CULTURE,” DAVID SOLWAY PENS THE OBITUARY FOR HIGH CULTURE AT THE DAWN OF THE MILLENNIUM:*

True poets will have to find other means of advancing their work in a decadent milieu, perhaps circulating their manuscripts privately as did the 17th Century Metaphysicals, or even self-publishing. All in all, we seem to have fallen on samizdat times.

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* If you’ll pardon such hate speech.