About David Gosselin
About
Age of Muses was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished struggle to create a truly classical journal of arts and letters—The Stylus. Poe viewed the establishment of a genuine classical culture in America as the ultimate bulwark against the spiritual, cultural and intellectual subversions plaguing even the best civilizations since time immemorial. Like Poe in America, Percy Bysshe Shelley in England recognized that ideas were first planted in the imagination, before taking root in the real world. Starting as small seedlings, then nourished and cultivated over time, these ideas spilled over into the realm of culture, education, politics, and finally, law.
For this reason, Plato dedicated much of Book X of his Republic to the function of poets and artists in society. Plato recognized that the poets—the original “image-makers” of society—used their divine talents to conjure images both real and fantastical, imitating the makings of both man and nature.