Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… (certainly somewhat disingenuously) that the real benefit a poet derived from a patron was not money or protection, but ‘conversation’, that is, the participation in a social and discursive space – the court – that synthesized political and aesthetic power. For Dryden, the patron provided ‘conversation’, the ideal form of criticism. As the eighteenth century progressed, there were just too many authors to all …
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