Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and PoetryThis essay contends that the confusion of the arts, such as literary painting or descriptive verse, can only lead to aesthetic disaster. The author distinguishes between the temporal and spatial arts and shows how their natures limit the type of subject matter which each can handle effectively. |
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