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Originally Posted by John Riley
The articles are asking what has the university done to poetry and music? What was lost when literary writing means you do a masters degree and hopefully land a job turning out more poets? How much does it effect or diminish the chances of something new? I know many people here want something old, but would the romantic movement have started at Eastern Carolina University or Tiny College America? People here may make their living in that system. That is what you’re supposed to do. To ask what is lost by turning any art into an academic field is the question a d it’s a legitimate one.
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Leonard Cohen strikes me as one of few modern poets not tied into academia, but who found financial success. And not having to answer to anybody, his writing is some of the most interesting I've read.
I'd think that what you can say and how you can say it is definitely going to be limited by a salary.
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