It’s an old idea, once common: Early poets thought of the world as embodying words spoken by its Maker. Their task as poets, as makers, was, as Middleton says elsewhere, to “mimic, evoke, and praise.” This is a long way from poetry as protest, confession or gibberish, and closer to Middleton’s fiddler, who chooses to “urge the world along.”
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