27 aristotle on poetry
aristotle on poetry Aristotle's Poetics is one of the deepest and most influential philosophical works on art, or rather, on a specific art. The treatise pursues several aims, one of which, and the most ? 05/01/2009?? Aristotle's theory of poetry is based upon two main propositions: the first, that poetry is imitation (???????), and the second, that it aims at universality. Aristotle: Poetics 1. Poetry as Imitation The first scandal in the Poetics is the initial marking out of dramatic poetry as a form of... 2. The Character of Tragedy A work is a tragedy, Aristotle ? Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: ???? ????????? Peri poietik?s; Latin: De Poetica; c. 335 BC ) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In this text Aristotle offers an account of ????????, which refers to poetry and more literally "the poetic art," deriving from the term for...