[lit-ideas] Poesy
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:22:49 EST
In a message dated 1/2/2010 11:15:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
Do you mean that Homer was reciting in prose?
_http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/autumn2009/features/channeling_sappho/ind
ex.html_
(http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/autumn2009/features/channeling_sappho/index.html)
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Well, Homer, who possibly didn't exist, was not _reciting_, since, hey, he
possibly didn't exist.
Wager is right that philosophers are either Aristotelean (sic) or Platean.
Plato was a frustrated poet, and, for Wager, if I understood him aright,
was a frustrated philosopher.
In general, poetry, in Greek meant "poesis", to make. They wouldn't call
Homer a "poet", since everyone who DID or MADE something had the same right
to be called "poet".
The notion of 'poesis', or Alexander Pope's 'poesy', is possibly very
confused.
Etc.
J. L. Speranza
Etc.
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