How does Aesthetics differ from Poetics, which helps the reader navigate comfortably through the pages of great literary works? This essay unfolds from the Aesthetics of reception to the Poetics of writing, whose foundational root can be traced back to Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On the Sublime, and their contemplative transformations within modern thought.

Confronted with fundamental themes concerning literature, such as freedom, discourse, structure, form, meaning, aesthetic criteria-values, and aesthetic education, the author discusses the relationship of literary discourse with history and philosophy, the real with the text, art with technique, writing with authorship.

This opens a discussion on pairs of opposites such as literature-pseudoliterature, authentic and pretentious literature, beauty-depth, sacred-profane, provincialism-cosmopolitanism, and the relationships between Greek and world literature that are concealed or overlooked, with a tendency to relieve oneself from the past and the ease that sanctifies.

However, whatever positive can still be offered by contemporary culture, amid its self-destructive spiral, bears the seed of the heavy burden of the past that we, unwittingly, seek to rid ourselves of or to devalue.