Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17
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“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“Poetry can be criticized only through poetry.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
“Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #117
Context: Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.
Edward Young
(1683–1765) English poet
London 1759, p. 28 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=h1IJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA28&dq=mysteries
Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)