{"product_id":"2940012335784","title":"THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE","description":"ARISTOTLE'S POETICS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI propose to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting\u003cbr\u003ethe essential quality of each; to inquire into the structure of the plot\u003cbr\u003eas requisite to a good poem; into the number and nature of the parts of\u003cbr\u003ewhich a poem is composed; and similarly into whatever else falls within\u003cbr\u003ethe same inquiry. Following, then, the order of nature, let us begin\u003cbr\u003ewith the principles which come first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and Dithyrambic: poetry, and the\u003cbr\u003emusic of the flute and of the lyre in most of their forms, are all in\u003cbr\u003etheir general conception modes of imitation. They differ, however, from\u003cbr\u003eone: another in three respects,--the medium, the objects, the manner or\u003cbr\u003emode of imitation, being in each case distinct.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor as there are persons who, by conscious art or mere habit, imitate\u003cbr\u003eand represent various objects through the medium of colour and form, or\u003cbr\u003eagain by the voice; so in the arts above mentioned, taken as a whole,\u003cbr\u003ethe imitation is produced by rhythm, language, or 'harmony,' either\u003cbr\u003esingly or combined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus in the music of the flute and of the lyre, 'harmony' and rhythm\u003cbr\u003ealone are employed; also in other arts, such as that of the shepherd's\u003cbr\u003epipe, which are essentially similar to these. In dancing, rhythm alone\u003cbr\u003eis used without 'harmony'; for even dancing imitates character, emotion,\u003cbr\u003eand action, by rhythmical movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is another art which imitates by means of language alone, and\u003cbr\u003ethat either in prose or verse--which, verse, again, may either combine\u003cbr\u003edifferent metres or consist of but one kind--but this has hitherto been\u003cbr\u003ewithout a name. For there is no common term we could apply to the mimes\u003cbr\u003eof Sophron and Xenarchus and the Socratic dialogues on the one hand;\u003cbr\u003eand, on the other, to poetic imitations in iambic, elegiac, or any\u003cbr\u003esimilar metre. People do, indeed, add the word 'maker' or 'poet' to\u003cbr\u003ethe name of the metre, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is,\u003cbr\u003ehexameter) poets, as if it were not the imitation that makes the poet,\u003cbr\u003ebut the verse that entitles them all indiscriminately to the name. Even\u003cbr\u003ewhen a treatise on medicine or natural science is brought out in verse,\u003cbr\u003ethe name of poet is by custom given to the author; and yet Homer and\u003cbr\u003eEmpedocles have nothing in common but the metre, so that it would be\u003cbr\u003eright to call the one poet, the other physicist rather than poet. On the\u003cbr\u003esame principle, even if a writer in his poetic imitation were to combine\u003cbr\u003eall metres, as Chaeremon did in his Centaur, which is a medley composed\u003cbr\u003eof metres of all kinds, we should bring him too under the general term\u003cbr\u003epoet. So much then for these distinctions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are, again, some arts which employ all the means above mentioned,\u003cbr\u003enamely, rhythm, tune, and metre. Such are Dithyrambic and Nomic poetry,\u003cbr\u003eand also Tragedy and Comedy; but between them the difference is, that in\u003cbr\u003ethe first two cases these means are all employed in combination, in the\u003cbr\u003elatter, now one means is employed, now another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch, then, are the differences of the arts with respect to the medium\u003cbr\u003eof imitation.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121117118704,"sku":"2940012335784","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012335784_p0.jpg?v=1763567372","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012335784","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}