Callimachus has generally been considered the archetypal ivory tower poet, his work identified as the first appearances of art for art's sake, poetry for the book rather than fellow citizens. He has been damned with faint praise as a scholar writing for libraries, a court sycophant writing to flatter divine kings' - Preface .
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Callimachus has generally been considered the archetypal ivory tower poet, his work identified as the first appearances of art for art's sake, poetry for the book rather than fellow citizens. He has been damned with faint praise as a scholar writing for libraries, a court sycophant writing to flatter divine kings' - Preface .
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