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Plato: The use of Inspiration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
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It is curious that one of the strongest attacks ever made on poetry and artistic inspiration was made by Plato. Plato was not only a great thinker, but also a peerless literary artist. It is therefore disconcerting to read a dialogue like the Ion, in which he first sets up, and then belabours, a ‘man of inspiration’, with all the resources of his ironic wit.
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