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This is the partial exam in life episode 320.

Part two, we've been talking about Friedrich Schlägel,

and we were in the intro to his dialogue on Poohzie.

We said he didn't like Poetics, right?

So it's unnecessary to preserve and propagate Poesie

with their reasonable speeches and teachings,

much less to create it in vent.

It set it up, give it putative laws as Poetics would like us to do,

because Poesie is spontaneous.

Only possible to speak about Poesie with Poesie.

So give us works of criticism that are themselves poetic

and not dry, rational, Aristotelian expositions on the principles of...

There's an element to and here of hermeneutics,

as he talks about having to kind of start from where we are.

So the critical enterprise is not a view from nowhere.

Since one person's Poesie must be limited precisely

because it is his own, so to must...

His view of Poesie be limited.

But the spirit cannot bear this.

That was because it knows, without knowing it,

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