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Poetics

By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Matthew Coles
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Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise on literary theory. The philosopher presents a treatise on what he defines as poetry, which includes verse drama, the satyr play, lyric poetry, and epic poetry. They are different in three ways that Aristotle describes thus: in music rhythm, harmony, meter, and melody; in the difference of goodness in the characters; in how the narrative is presented - telling a story or acting it out. He identifies two first principles in poetics: imitation and genres. The work includes a detailed examination of tragedy in five parts: definition, the rules for its construction, possible criticisms of an epic or tragedy, and the answers to them, and tragedy as artistically superior to epic poetry.

Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Collections Classics
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