 ... of indifference the moral content of a poem or the moral character of the author. Nay, they are all-important factors in producing the total impression which has to be made upon the hearer. The matter of literature is life ; and tragedy is in a special...  The Year's Work in Classical Studies - Page 63by Classical Association (Great Britain) - 1927Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - Aesthetics - 1895 - 418 pages
...in producing the total impression which has '' Poet. xiii. 2. 2 Poet. xiii. 8. Contrast Plato, who would compel the poet to exhibit the perfect requital of vice and virtue (Laws ii. 660 E). So in Rep. iii. 392 AB poets are forbidden to say that many wicked men are happy... | |
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