Literary theory: the good, the bad, and the incomprehensible (Part 1)
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The Importance of Literature in the Middle Ages
Aristotle wrote his poetics which lays out the principles of what a good play comedy or drama should do. Poetry was always looked at as something that had forms that people could draw from and it was a field of... It was an art and a craft. How did these things get codified then? Who were the gatekeepers? That's an interesting question. I think it really kind of just slowly started to happen largely in the Renaissance.
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