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Aba Brother
This is quite a thought-provoking post and I love it. So much so that I had to digress to contemplate and read what Aristotle thought in greater detail. So I must defer from commenting further until I can do so with a small degree of knowledge. Thank you so much, dear Aba brother.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 17, 2021 at 11:43 PM
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I think of teachers who can teach 'The Rules' of writing, and what problems those Rules are meant to solve. What I tell writing students is, learn the rules and know the problems they solve, then--if they can create another solution that solves the problem in question, go for it!
Horatio may have been responding with his rules of poetics to the 'bad poets' which crop up, probably in every generation: the young poets whose idea of poetry is angst with rhymes. Most of it is pretty awful stuff, except for my adolescent angst works which were, of course, brilliant and universal. 
posted by
Ciel
on September 14, 2021 at 5:47 PM
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Something to live up to. Perhaps not many feel as serious about the poetry of course once there were not many diversions.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 14, 2021 at 1:57 AM
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