 | 1908 - 710 pages
...we have is found in the Poetics, Book VI, chapter 2. " Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude ; in...artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in the separate parts of the play ; (/. e. verse without music in the dialogue, lyrical song in the chorus)... | |
 | 1926 - 550 pages
...tragedy. "Tragedy," he says in the sixth chapter of the Poetics, "is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude, in...effecting the proper purgation of these emotions." Let us first pause over the phrase "Tragedy is an imitation of an action," for in an understanding... | |
 | 1908 - 384 pages
...Aristotle's definition of Tragedy. That definition is : "Tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper kddapatz, or purgation, of these emotions." mental principles of human nature, and in this way he is... | |
 | 1898 - 584 pages
...of tragedy.* We quote Mr. Butcher's translation : — ' Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...; in the form of action, not of narrative, through pily and fear ejecting the proper Katharsis, or purgation of these emotions ' (Si eXeov KO.I <f>6(3ov... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 232 pages
...language embellished with every kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in different parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity (eXe'ou) and fear effecting the proper purification (/catfapow) of these emotions." That it is an imitation... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 354 pages
...Renaissancejtheory of tragedy. That definition is as follows : " Tragedy. is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...parts of the play ; in the form of action, not of narration ; through pity and fear effecting the proper katharsis or purgation of these emotions."1... | |
 | Sophocles - 1900 - 186 pages
...iraQT|fMÍTwv KáQapffiv. — Aristotle, Poetic, 6. ' Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of those emotions.' — Butcher's Translation. The term /u/ii)сгir in this definition is rendered unavoidably,... | |
 | Edward Capps - 1901 - 532 pages
...with a portion of the discussion which follows : Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. By ' language embellished ' I mean language into which rhythm, ' harmony ' and . song enter. By ' the... | |
 | John Milton - 1901 - 418 pages
...The fuller definition, in Butcher's translation, runs: 'Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in...effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.' Cf. Butcher's Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, Chap. II. and VI. 9. for so, in physic. The... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...him at his best in his definition of Greek Tragedy : " Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude ; in...effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. ' Every word of this is original, profound, true ; and not less admirable is his employment of logic... | |
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Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of... 
