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“the crucial shift from Patron to Public,” citing the testimony of
Oliver Goldsmith’s 1759 Enquiry into the Present State of Polite
Learning in Europe :
At present the few poets of England no longer depend on
the Great for subsistence, they have now no other
patrons but the public, and the public , collectively
considered, is a good and generous master . . . . A writer
of real merit now may easily be rich if his heart be set only
on fortune: and for those who have no merit, it is but fit
that such should remain in merited obscurity.
Leo Lowenthal’s new study of popular literary culture is
not only concerned with the eighteenth century and after, but
studies the dilemmas of diversion vs. salvation through art
from Montaigne and Pascal to modern magazine iconology. In