Nowadays a long Romantic tradition has caused us to think of poets as private dreamers, ill - adapted to social intercourse and the horrors of a materialist world but thereby guardians of value and the messengers of our common soul. In 1711 François senior would have viewed a young poet as a modern parent might view an aspirant television celebrity.
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