Poetics
About This Book
Poetics Preface In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in the soul against that which is high and strong, who makes us feed the things we ought to starve and serve the things we ought to rule, he ends with a touch of compunction: ‘We will give her champions, not poets themselves but poet-lovers, an opportunity to make her defenc
| Category | general |
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| Subject | N/A |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 16 |
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| License | Public Domain |
Chapters
- Poetics
- Our subject being Poetry, I propose to speak not only of the art in general but
- II. The objects the imitator represents are actions, with agents who are necessa
- It is clear that the general origin of poetry was due to two causes, each of the
- Having thus distinguished the parts, let us now consider the proper construction
- From what we have said it will be seen that the poet’s function is to describe,
- A Peripety is the change from one state of things within the play to its opposit
- The parts of Tragedy to be treated as formative elements in the whole were menti
- Poetics
- In the Characters there are four points to aim at. First and foremost, that they
- Discovery in general has been explained already. As for the species of Discovery
- The Plot and Characters having been discussed, it remains to consider the Dictio
- Nouns are of two kinds, either (1) simple, i.e. made up of non-significant parts
- As for the poetry which merely narrates, or imitates by means of versified langu
- II. Besides this, Epic poetry must divide into the same species as Tragedy; it m
- As regards Problems and their Solutions, one may see the number and nature of th