1. The History and Theory of Anglo-American Literature
But, it is not in a little number that imagery even doesn't help the readers to understand the visualizations. ... Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). ... Sir Philip Sidney acknowledges this in The Defence of Poesie, saying that Plato made "mistress Philosophy very often borrow the masking raiment of Poesy" (Gilbert 428). ...
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