Poetics (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Cover Title Page Copyright Preface CONTENTS Introduction I. Aristotle's Works II. The Literary Works and the Second Book of the "Poetics" III. Aristotle and His Predecessors IV. The Text and Its Transmission Bibliography and Abbreviations Text Commentary Appendixes I. Mimesis II. Pity, Fear and Katharsis III. Simple and Complex Tragedy IV. Hamartia Index Our subject being Poetry, I propose to speak not only of the art in general but also of its species and their respective capacities; of the structure of plot required for a good poem; of the number and nature of the constituent parts of a poem; and likewise of any other matters in the same line of inquiry. Aristotle ; Introduction, Commentary And Appendixes By D.w. Lucas. Text In Greek ; Introduction, Commentary, And Appendixes In English. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. Xxvi-xxviii. One of the first books written on what is now called aesthetics. Although parts are lost (e.g., comedy), it has been very influential in western thought, such as the part on tragedy.