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\n2020  \n# The Poetics of Aristotle\n\nAristotle  \nBook No.05252745  \n| STAFFORDSHIRE  \u003Cbr>UNIVERSITY  \u003Cbr>LIBRARY   |\n| --- |\n| SITE:   |\n| 12 APR 2007  \u003Cbr>丁  \u003Cbr>A1R   |\n| CLASS No.  \u003Cbr>185   |\n\nDD OPRESS  \n# THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLEA TRANSLATION\n\nBY  \nS.H.BUTCHER  \n[Transcriber's Annotations and Conventions:the translator left intactsome Greek words to illustrate a specific point of the originaldiscourse.In this transcription,in order to retain the accuracy of thistext,those words are rendered by spelling out each Greek letterindividually,such as {alpha beta gamma delta ....The reader candistinguish these words by the enclosing braces {}.Where multiplewords occur together,they are separated by the\"I\"symbol forclarity.Readers who do not speak or read the Greek language willusually neither gain nor lose understanding by skipping over thesepassages.Those who understand Greek,however,may gain a deeperinsight to the original meaning and distinctions expressed byAristotle.]  \n## Analysis of Contents\n\n—  \nI 'Imitation'the common principle of the Arts of Poetry.I The Objects of Imitation.IⅢ The Manner of Imitation.IV The Origin and Development of Poetry.  \nV Definition of the Ludicrous,and a brief sketch of the rise ofComedy.  \nVI Definition of Tragedy.VII The Plot must be a Whole.VI The Plot must be a Unity.IX(Plot continued.)Dramatic Unity.  \nX(Plot continued.)Definitions of Simple and Complex Plots  \nXI(Plot continued.)Reversal of the Situation,Recognition,andTragic or disastrous Incident defined and explained.  \nXII The'quantitative parts'of Tragedy defined.  \nXIII (Plot continued.)What constitutes Tragic Action.  \nXIV(Plot continued.)The tragic emotions of pity and fear shouldspring out of the Plot itself  \nXV The element of Character in Tragedy.  \nXVI(Plot continued.)Recognition:its various kinds,with examples.  \nXVII Practical rules for the Tragic Poet.  \nXVIII Further rules for the Tragic Poet.  \nXIX Thought,or the Intellectual element,and Diction in Tragedy.XX Diction,or Language in general.  \nXXI Poetic Diction.  \nXXII (Poetic Diction continued.)How Poetry combines elevation oflanguage with perspicuity.  \nXXII Epic Poetry.  \nXXIV(Epic Poetry continued.)Further points of agreement withTragedy.  \nXXV Critical Objections brought against Poetry,and the principleson which they are to be answered.  \nXXVI A general estimate of the comparative worth of Epic Poetryand Tragedy  \nThe Poetics of Aristotle  \nARISTOTLE'S POETICS  \nI  \nI propose to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds,notingthe essential quality of each;to inquire into the structure of the plotas requisite to a good poem;into the number and nature of the partsof which a poem is composed;and similarly into whatever else fallswithin the same inquiry.Following,then,the order of nature,let usbegin with the principles which come first  \nEpic poetry and Tragedy,Comedy also and Dithyrambic:poetry,and the music of the flute and of the lyre in most of their forms,areall in their general conception modes of imitation.They differ,however,from one:another in three respects,—the medium,theobjects,the manner or mode of imitation,being in each case distinct.  \nFor as there are persons who,by conscious art or mere habit,imitateand represent various objects through the medium of colour andform,or again by the voice;so in the arts above mentioned,taken asa whole,the imitation is produced by rhythm,language,orharmony,'either singly or combined.  \nThus in the music of the flute and of the lyre,'harmony'and rhythmalone are employed;also in other arts,such as that of the shepherd'spipe,which are essentially similar to these.In dancing,rhythm aloneis used without 'harmony';for even dancing imitates character,emotion,and action,by rhythmical movement.  \nThere is another art which imitates by means of language alone,andthat either in prose or 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