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I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.
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Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.
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Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.
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Julian Jaynes
Born:
February 27, 1920
Died:
November 21, 1997
(aged 77)
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