ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Reading: (1) Edward Young, excerpt from Conjectures on Original Composition
(CT, 329–337)
(2) Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, III (CT, 343–347)
(3) William Blake, Annotations to Reynolds’ “Discourses”, on Discourse
III (CT, 403–407)
Question: Young asserts that “he who imitates the divine Iliad, does not imitate Homer” (p. 331b). Why not? What would it mean to imitate Homer, according to Young?
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