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Poetics (1997) (edit title/settings)

by Aristotle (Author) (edit contributors)

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Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics , written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental one we have. It has been used by both playwrights and theorists of many periods, and interpreted, in the course of its two thousand... read more

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1447a About the poetic art itself and the forms of it, what specific capacity each has, and how one ought to put together stories4 if the making of them is going to hold together beautifully, and also how many and 10 what sort of parts stories are made of, and likewise about as many other things as belong to the inquiry into poetic art, let us speak once we have first started, in accord with nature, from the things that come first.

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This is book 20 of 65 in Robert B. Downs - Books that Changed the World. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Rhetoric, and followed by Prometheus Bound.

This book is in Western canon according to Harold Bloom. (community list)

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  1. Aristotle (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Gerald Else (Translator)
  2. S. H. Butcher (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 9780486295770
Page Count: 64

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