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440 BEHOLDING LIBERTY!
The vindication of the Greek Revolution, with the birth of the Modern Greek state – even confined in terms of territory
and population –marked the year 1821
as the founding event of modern Hellenism. Especially in the first decades of the liberation, the revolutionary period of 1821-28 is praised, acquiring its proper significance.
Poems that had been written in the
course of the Struggle, such as those
of the antiquarian and philhellene king
of Bavaria Ludwig I, are published
and responded to.
These poetic compositions, either
of patriotic (for the Greek writers)
or philhellenic (for the foreigners) character, often are of lesser literary
