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The Republic - Plato

Plato does not seriously intend to expel poets from life and society. But he feels strongly the unreality of their writings; he is protesting against the degeneracy of poetry in his own day as we might protest against the want of serious purpose in modern fiction, against the unseemliness or extravagance of some of our poets or novelists, against the time serving of preachers or public writers, against the regardlessness of truth which to the eye of the philosopher seems.

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