...as we can see in "Berkeleys" — "Verses On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America." "The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of...waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame." This stanza shows the growing disgust with all the classic subjects so worn out in Europe. The last...

...bishop George Berkeley sat down to reflect with bittersweet melancholy upon England's cultural decline. "The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime / Barren of every glorious theme" had already fled: England was in decay. But culture's muse seemed poised to rule again in the North...

...transposes time and space, projecting the rise and fall of empires onto the movement of European migration: The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of...waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame ... There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring...