| #230155 in eBooks | 2012-02-29 | 2012-02-01 | File type: PDF||9 of 9 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 along|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 device.Poetics (Dover Thrift Editions) | Aristotle. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
