H.D.F. Kitto Quotes

Plato Utterly Condemns The Poets For Publishing Trivial, False And Indeed Wicked Stories About The Gods, Such As That They Fight With Each Other, Or Are Overcome By Emotions Like Grief, Anger, Mirth. Reluctantly, He Will Not Allow Homer In His Republic, And He Is Very Angry With The Tragic Poets For Spreading Unworthy Ideas Of The Deity.

It May Well Be That There Were Inferior Tragic Poets Who Deserved Plato's Strictures, But So Far As Concerns The Tragic Poets Whom We Know, Plato's Attack Is Absurd. It Is The Attack Of A Severely Intellectual Philosopher Who Was Also More Of A Poet Than Most Poets Have Contrived To Be; One Who Invented Some Of The Profoundest And Most Beautiful Of Greek Myths. 'There Is A Long-standing Quarrel', Says Plato, 'between Philosophy And Poetry.' So There Was, On The Part Of The Philosophers, And Most Of All In Plato's Own Soul.

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