The Roman architect Vitruvius suggested that buildings can be judged according to their utilitas, firmitas, and venustas, that is, according to their fitness for their purpose, their structural soundness, and their beauty; or, in Richard Krautheimer’s version, their function, structure, and design.
—Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing about Art, (HarperCollins, 1989)
[The same criteria could be applied to a good poem.]
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