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The Uses of Poetry (Classic Reprint)

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The Uses of Poetry (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Uses of Poetry However, the writers of poetry have not helped us much, and we had better turn to the reader. The question now is, What is the use of poetry to him, or to what end in him does it, or ought it to, con tribute? And this is the question so much debated in criticism from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. One common answer was pleasure, sometimes called also amusement. Another was moral improvement, or moral instruction with a view to improvement. There is an obvious objection to each doctrine. For the pleasure doc trine appears to group poetry with card-playing or drinking, while the improvement doctrine does not explain why poetry should be pleasant. Hence the more popular view (as old, of course, as Horace) was that poetry aims both at moral profit and at pleasure or, better still, that its immediate object is pleasure, under cover of which it gains its ultimate purpose of profit. This is the gospel of the sugared pill, a gospel which satisfies both conscience and common sense, since it recognizes that we ought to wish to be better and do wish to enjoy ourselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date Australia
April 25th, 2018
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
20
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x1
ISBN-13
9781331000563
Product ID
23266219

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