Mourning PhilologyPagan life seduces me a little more with each passing day. If it were possible today, I would change my religion and would joyfully embrace poetic paganism, wrote the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan in 1908. During the seven years that remained in his life, he wrote largely in this pagan vein. If it was an artistic endeavour, why then should art be defined in reference to religion? And which religion precisely? Was Varuzhan echoing Schellings Philosophy