As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a distr… - Dana Gioia

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As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a distrustful independence from institutions. Once poets began moving into universities, they abandoned the working-class heterogeneity of Greenwich Village and North Beach for the professional homogeneity of academia.