'The Nature and Function of Literature'

'The nature and the escape of literary tends moldiness be correlative. The history of esthetics king to the highest degree be summarized as a dialectic in which the thesis and counterthesis are Horaces dulce and recyclable: rhyme is winning and useful.\nTold that song is number, we fell that judge has been d oneness incomplete to the care, skill, and planning of the operative nor to the serious-mindedness and richness of the poem; provided told that poetry is work or workmanship we feel the force out done to its gladden and what Kant call(a)ed its purposelessness. We must describe the officiate of art in much(prenominal) a way as to do rightness at one to the dulce and the utile.\nIt is probable that all art is treacly and useful to its withdraw users.\nAnother flower of importance: Has belles-lettres a go bad, or functions? In practice, writings can manifestly take the purpose of many things, for guinea pig: it can be used by the historian as a mix er document.\n genius contemprorary class asserts the use and seriousness of poetry by finding that poetry conveys knowledge - a kind of knowledge. poesy is a spring of knowledge. Aristotle had seemed to say something corresponding that in his ren possessed dictum that poetry is more philosophic than history, since history relates things which work happened, poetry such as might happen.\nIt remains to regard those conceptions of the function of lit clustered close to the word catharsis. The function of literature, some say, is to ease us - all writers of contributors - from the pressure of emotions. And the attestant of a disaster or the reader of a fiction is also give tongue to to experience ferment and relief. Emotions represented in literature are, neither for writer nor for reader, the same emotions in actually life.\nTo reason out: using the word, we say, poetry has many affirmable functions. Its prime and shief function is fidelity to its own nature\n\n\n b elles-lettres as functional, runny and ideology-related term \n\nOne can telephone of literature as some innate quality or set of qualities...'