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Most Poetry In The Modern Age Has Retreated To The Private Sphere, Turning Its Back On The Political Realm.

The Truth Is That Liberal Humanism Is At Once Largely Ineffectual, And The Best Ideology Of The 'human' That Present Bourgeois Society Can Muster.

With Fiction, You Can Talk About Plot, Character And Narrative, Whereas A Poem Brings Home The Fact That Everything That Happens In A Work Of Literature Happens In Terms Of Language. And This Is Daunting Stuff To Deal With.

If History, Philosophy And So On Vanish From Academic Life, What They Leave In Their Wake May Be A Technical Training Facility Or Corporate Research Institute. But It Will Not Be A University In The Classical Sense Of The Term, And It Would Be Deceptive To Call It One.

For The Liberal State To Accommodate A Diversity Of Beliefs While Having Few Positive Convictions Is One Of The More Admirable Achievements Of Civilization.