I don't know that Lewis book but that seems to be the same distinction only focussed on the process rather than the content, i.e. the Virgilian national story has to be artificial almost by definition and the Homeric encoding of values is inevitably somewhat organic, otherwise it would verge into the other category. For many centuries we have lived inside the Gutenberg parenthesis with many Virgilian assumptions. If we are now leaving the parenthesis, perhaps America can expect a new Homeric tradition to emerge.
I don't know that Lewis book but that seems to be the same distinction only focussed on the process rather than the content, i.e. the Virgilian national story has to be artificial almost by definition and the Homeric encoding of values is inevitably somewhat organic, otherwise it would verge into the other category. For many centuries we have lived inside the Gutenberg parenthesis with many Virgilian assumptions. If we are now leaving the parenthesis, perhaps America can expect a new Homeric tradition to emerge.
Thank you—that way of parsing the distinction makes sense.