22. Sep, 2009 
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The only thing that would be more ponderous and difficult than trudging through Kant’s prose in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment would be attempting to put his aesthetic philosophy found within to the test. Kant delivers a paucity of practical examples to make his recondite and ostensibly inconsistent abstractions all the more difficult to assimilate. [...]
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The following are major ideas held by conservative writers and thinkers of Neoclassicism.
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Comedy is poetry that transmutes a sad beginning into a happy ending.
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Voltaire’s Candide questions the best of all possible worlds that contain daily atrocities, iniquities, and disasters.
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Allusion in Neoclassical poetry provides a contrast between the past and the present; allusion enriches the meaning and the texture of the poem; and allusion suggests a universality.
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