While Plato insists the production of creative work, like poetry or drama, is dependent on inspiration and nothing else, Longinus and Horace, in summarizing Aristotle’s Poetics, say creative work is based on hard work, on the quality of the mind that produces a novel or a dramatic product. In your opinion who was right? Plato or Aristotle? Explain.

While Plato insists the production of creative work, like poetry or drama, is dependent on inspiration and nothing else, Longinus and Horace, in summarizing Aristotle’s Poetics, say creative work is based on hard work, on the quality of the mind that produces a novel or a dramatic product. In your opinion who was right? Plato or Aristotle? Explain.