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Laocoön
also: Laokoón, Laokoon, Lessing's Laocoön
Lessing's Laocoön, oder über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie (1766), the foundational German aesthetics treatise distinguishing temporal and spatial arts; Madách cites its argument for 'necessary faults' (anachronism) in poetry to defend the anachronistic speech of Adam and Eve in The Tragedy of Man.
Reading notes
- Correspondence §2 von den nothwendigen Fehlern
Chapter/section of Lessing's Laocoön arguing for 'necessary faults' (necessary violations of historical fact) as legitimate in poetry, using Milton's Paradise Lost as the prime example.