Jeden tylko poeta nigdy nie kłamie... Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski o przywileju poetów
Only one poet never lies ... Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski on the privilege of poets

Author(s): Maria Łukaszewicz-Chantry
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cognitive Psychology, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Mimesis; probability; poetry; fiction; alegoresis
Summary/Abstract: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski in his treatise De perfecta poesi, sive Vergiliuset Homerus, reflecting on the art of poetry, assures that the poet never lies. This privilege comes from the belief that the poet creates in imitation of God, as if giving a new existence to his heroes. That's why "Can talk about what is not as if it really existed." Poetic fictions are also often a veil hiding a precious truth to which one can to arrive using the appropriate allegorical interpretation.

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