Class Notes

Phillip Sidney
1. The poet presents us with a golden world and nature only gives us a brass one.
2. The poet never affirms anything so the poet never lies. The reason is because he deals with the hypothetical and unreal situations.

Aristotle says
The poet improves upon nature.

William Blake tells us the poets powers.

Historian and Philosophers have to state facts.

Treason on the Clerks

Literature produces tolerance-detachment where you use imagination the writers beliefs are on the backburnner to what the character says. Let the character develop as it does.

19th Century Naturalism
Zola tries to describe life how it really is. wants to record it as faithfully and desperately as possible.

Truman Capote "In cold Blood" examination of real people. Trick us into thinking it is a novel but shows us its the real world.

Journalists ask "is it true" a true artist would say they took aspects from her and others because it is a hypothetical situation