What is Poetry? Part 4

"Angelo Poliziano, a broadly educated humanist, a philologist, jurist, historian, philosopher, and poet, versed in Greek and Latin, and a prominent figure in Italian culture, was the model of Renaissance erudition.  As Eugenio Garin has noted, his poetics, dominated by interpretations of Antiquity, was based on an idea according to which 'to imitate . . . is to become aware of one's own originality in the relationship that links it to the other, to find in oneself the means of creation with an example before one's eyes, to assume its intimate nature through a sort of looking into oneself.'"

- Philippe-Alain Michaud:  Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion

Comments

[Dave]

A beautiful thought, beautifully expressed.