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that is remote from intelligence,
and is its companion and friend1 for no sound and true
purpose.2” “By all means,” said he.
“Mimetic art, then, is an inferior thing cohabiting with an
inferior and engendering inferior offspring.3” “It
seems so.” “Does that,” said I,
“hold only for vision or does it apply also to hearing and to what
we call poetry?” “Presumably,” he said,
“to that also.” “Let us not, then, trust
solely to the plausible analogy4 from painting, but let us approach in turn
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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