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The golden apples of the sun7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hume goes farther, comparing Classicism to a well and Romanticism to a bucket – wells do not spill buckets, with their hectic and hurried porters, often do. Here, we are not far from Hulme’s qualifying of Romanticism as “spilt religion”, since the ultimate concerns of both poetry and mythology are nature and the infinite, weighed against the finitude of human existence. Mythology, in the words of one uncompromising scholar, is nothing but religion in which no one believes any more. Success in the attempt entitled him to fight the priest in single combat, and if he slew him he reigned in his stead with the title of King of the Wood (Rex Nemorensis)’. Only a runaway slave was allowed to break off, if he could, one of its boughs. ‘Within the sanctuary at Nemi grew a certain tree of which no branch might be broken. ![]()
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