Excerpt from The Influence of Art on Description in the Poetry of P. Papinius StatiusThe poet and the artist, then, must not be judged by the same standard. The excellence of a poet is not to be judged by his ability to draw pictures, or afford material for a pic ture. On this score, Lessing runs counter to Count Caylus who makes this, as it were, the touch-stone of the poet: cette réfiexion m'avait conduit 5 penser que le calcul des différens...
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