From this same brilliant poet / philosopher. She claims that Homeric poetry had a merely utilitarian function, to unite the community through myth, and that the only function of verse was to make these myths easy to memorize. Aesthetics was an afterthought, and the function of being pleasant [placentero] represented a kind of decadence. She say that ars poetica is decadent.
It is hard to know where to begin. With people like this among the ranks of poets, who needs Philistines?
I am not using the word brilliant sarcastically. She actually is brilliant. This is all the more disappointing because of higher expectations for such a person.
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