| #17572 in Books | Dover Publications | 1997-03-12 | 1997-03-12 | Original language:Greek | PDF # 1 | 8.36 x.18 x5.18l,.15 | File type: PDF | 64 pages | ||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| 5 star translation, 3 star commentary: 4.5 overall|By The Great Penguin Adventure|I ordered this particular translation of the Poetics for a two-person reading group. The other member recommended it for the translation and this being my first reading of the whole text I was happy to go along. In the end it was a fine choice for the translation, but the commentary comes alon|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language: Greek|From the Back Cover|Aristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history. A penetrati
Among the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle's Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute and lyre playing. Aristotle's conception of tragedy, i.e. the depiction of a heroic action that arouses pity and fear in the spectators and brings about a catharsis of those emotions, has helped perpetuate the Greek ideal of drama to the present day. Similarl...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Poetics (Dover Thrift Editions) | Aristotle. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
