“From a poetic point of view, Asma Polemistirion is not some great exception of the body of modern Greek works of the time: that was the type of doggerel multiplied by “mismayah” (Phanariote songs) and sung in cities charming sensitive youths; with this type of songs Rhigas Velestinlis and Psalidas embellished their books. It is intellectual poetry, that fast became popular, to cross-bread later on with the folk song (demotico) and to generate compositions such as those by Christopoulos and Vilaras that will pave new roads in modern Greek poetic creation. […] The doggerel of Korais is well surrounded by the mediocre poetic production of his time. Besides, what mainly distinguishes patriotic and revolutionary songs is not as much the quality of the verse itself as the direct impact that they could cause through their content. […] Korais wanted to introduce substantial elements of the ideology of the Greek Enlightenment. The other, those that are a product of circumstances, also refer to ends that since the time of French revolution have started to integrate in the permanent demands of the most progressive groups among Greek scholars, precisely those people that in the twenty years 1800-1820 will be motivated by Korais. (p.  37-38)