Ut pictura poesis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Vida, though less outspoken, recognizes the same inspiration in the same function (n, 11 ff.): ' Nam 111-11 i none reperire apta, atque reperta docendum Digerere, atque sno quaeqae ordine rite locare. Durus uterque labor. Sed quos Deus aspicit aequus, Saepe suis subito inrenient accommoda votis, Altera nempe arti tantum est obnoxia cura, Unde sclent laudem in primis optare poetae." In another passage (n, 395 ff.) Vida attributes productivity directly to inspired enthusiasm: "Quid cum animis sacer est furor additus, atque potens vis? I i i pot ins! felizque ideo qui tempora quiyit, Adventumque Dei, et sacrum expectare calorem, Paulisperque operi posito subducere inentem, Mntati donee redeat dementia coeli.' But both du Fresnoy and Vida claim for the judgment control even over inspiration. Each admonishes his disciple to be critical of himself before, during, and after executing his design; and to profit by the criticisms of others. Du Fresnoy (l1. 440 ff.): ' Nee prius inducas tabulae pigmenta colorum, Expensi quam signa typi stabilita nitescant, Et menti praesens opens sit pegma futnrj. Utere doctorum monitis, nee sperne superbus Discere, quae de te fuerit sententia vulgL Est caecus narn quisque suis in rebus, et eipers Judicii, prolamque saam miratur amatqae. Ast ubi consilium deerit sapientis amici, Id temp us dabit, atque mora intermissa labori." 6 1 Vida, like Horace 1 before him, holds that "scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons." Vida says (i, 75 ff.), ' Quin etiam prius effigiem f ormare solutis Totiusque opens simulacrum fingere verbis Proderit, atque omnes ex ordine nectere partes. Et seriem rerum,,et certos tibi ponere fines, Per quos tuta regens vestigia tendere pergas." Vida believes in encouraging the yo...