ENGL 3045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anagoge, Psalms, Philip Sidney
11 Apr 2016
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Genres and notions of correctness are thrown out go to individual genius of poet themselves rather than how well they imitate previous people. Changes our notion of what is valuable about art. What is valuable is to transport out of yourself, who you thought you were. For the romantics, longinus will acknowledge awesome power of art free from instruction of moral tag. Know particular passages on 97, 98, 99, 100, 101 (5 sources, 3 failures of sublimity) Dante came along and wanted to secularize it. Dante makes things more accessible prior to him, latin was universally accepted language, but after him, no longer elitist in that way. He applies multiple levels of interpretation- any text can be read in multiple ways, in multiple realms. P. 139 in one sentence, he mashes together aristotelian stuff with horace stuff: first half- aristotle"s notion of mimesis, p. 91 a poem is much like a painting is what sidney is plagiarizing.
