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Discussion about the legendary Plato , the critic of the Hellenic phase of Criticism and also the brief discussion regarding his views on poetic inspiration, imitation and condemnation of poetry.

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NTA-UGC NET- Greek Criticism- Plato

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Brief introduction of Plato as the first systematic critic, his literary works, and introduction of his views on poetry and imitation in the book Ion and Republic.

Plato

Description about the poetic view of Plato that poetry is both inspiration and imitation and poet can only copy the emotions from the objects prevailing in the non-materialistic world which is not original.

Poetic Inspiration

Explanation of the term Imitation from Plato's point of view. Art in his view is imitation of imitation which is thrice removed from the reality, from the originality.

Imitation

Discussion of the condemnation of poetry from Plato's point of view in the form of Objection from Moral and Philosophical point of views that Poetry is deviated from truth as it is the imitation.

Condemnation of Poetry

Discussion of Plato's views on poetry from Philosophical point of view and on Intellectual ground. For Plato the poet doesn't possess knowledge of truth because he imitate the appearances.

Part - III

Annie Mahindru

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This course is for the aspirants of UGC NET English. In this course we are going to focus on LITERARY THEORY - Structuralism. We also have a test series on Structuralism in the last lesson of the course.

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Information regarding the written dates and publishing dates of all the major novels of different ages in the History of English Literature including Indian novels written in English.

Lessons

5 lessons • 41m

Plato

Poetic Inspiration

Imitation

Condemnation of Poetry

Part - III