1. Thomas Paine
In an interesting twist on Paine's argument utilizing Aristotle's ideal on poetics, Paine claims that the imagery in the books supposedly written by Prophets is actually poetry. It meets all of the requirements, including being fictitious, extravagant and not fitting within any other category of form than poetry. ... However, he says, the book does not claim itself to be a work of poetry. ...
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