Poetics (Unabridged) - Aristotle

Poetics (Unabridged)

By Aristotle

  • Release Date: 2024-10-07
  • Genre: Fiction
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Summary : Poetics (Unabridged)

Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise on literary theory. The philosopher presents a treatise on what he defines as poetry, which includes verse drama, the satyr play, lyric poetry, and epic poetry. They are different in three ways that Aristotle describes thus: in music rhythm, harmony, meter, and melody; in the difference of goodness in the characters; in how the narrative is presented - telling a story or acting it out. He identifies two first principles in poetics: imitation and genres. The work includes a detailed examination of tragedy in five parts: definition, the rules for its construction, possible criticisms of an epic or tragedy, and the answers to them, and tragedy as artistically superior to epic poetry.

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