Eguria

LET’s CONSIDER LONGINUS AND HIS THOUGHTs BY Eguriase S. M. Okaka Longinus was an unknown writer. Nobody knows how he died. He wrote an article which was later referred to as Longinus or sublime. His article was very lenghty that was why it was called Longinus as its implies. Plato wrote an article in his book named ‘The Republic’. Aristotle wrote ‘The Poetics’. Horace wrote a book titled ‘Arts Poetical’ and here is this notable write up by an unknown writer referred to as Longinus. Longinus was notable for writing about sublimity. Let’s consider his thoughts: Sublimity means a state of perfection or excellence. Sublimity refers to something that has attained the highest level of excellence. Longinus believes that every writer should hit the sublime e.g., Writers should write towards excellent at least once in a lifetime. The state of the sublime is very high. It is not what a writer can hit always. But every writer should aim at perfection or sublimity. The great writer William Sha...

LET’S CONSIDER HORACE’s THOUGHTs By Eguriase S. M. Okaka Horace died in 8th B.C. He was a poet. He lived after the death of Aristotle he was not Aristotle’s student. He only loved and studied his works. The critical thought of Horace on drama is that: Artists are not born but they are made. Let’s find out more from his thoughts. • To be a good student of art you must go to school, to improve in your talent in order to be good at what you are doing. • The ultimate purpose of drama is to give profit and delight. The profit is the moral lessons derived and the delight means the entertainment. • Horace was the first person to raise the issue of decorum (appropriateness, fitness, correctness of various purity of dramatic genre. Don’t mix tragedy with comedy. Horace says if you are writing tragedy let it be tragedy. Do not make a bad person look funny. Separate comedy from tragedy. • Avoid displaying violence on stage such actions should be reported or announced. • Write your plots from...