 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 208 pages
...therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to the type here described." 1 " Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in...of one man out of which we cannot make one action. ... As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one, when the object imitated is one,... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 208 pages
...therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to the type here described." ' " Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in...of one man out of which we cannot make one action. ... As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one, when the object imitated is one,... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1898 - 218 pages
...therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to the type here described." l " Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in...incidents in one man's life, which cannot be reduced to im ii v; and so, too, there are many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one action. ...... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 358 pages
...unity. By unity of plot he does not mean merely the unity given by a single hero, for, as he says, " infinitely various are the incidents in one man's...out of which we cannot make one action. Hence the error, as it appears, of all poets who have composed a Heracleid, a Theseid, or other poems o£ the... | |
 | 1901 - 300 pages
...the closely allied question of unity, we see no reason to demur at Aristotle's verdict that ' unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero,' or to regard his unity as 'artificial,' or when, in spite of the professor's sneers, we are content... | |
 | Aristotle - 1907 - 148 pages
...good, or from good fortune to bad. VIII Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist V x / in the unity of the hero. For infinitely various are...error, as it appears, of all poets who have composed a Heraeleid, a Theseid, or other poems of the kind. They imagine that as Heracles was one man, the story... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1912 - 460 pages
...to be avoided, the biographical epic was even less possible. To turn once more to Aristotle, " unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in...out of which we cannot make one action. Hence the error, as it appears, of all poets who have composed a Herakleid, a Theseid, or other poems of the... | |
 | Clarence Valentine Boyer - 1914 - 284 pages
...truth. Aristotle's comments on the unity of action reveal the weakness of Jonson's tragedy. " Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in...of one man out of which we cannot make one action. . . . The plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural... | |
 | Clarence Valentine Boyer - 1914 - 294 pages
...truth. Aristotle's comments on the unity of action reveal the weakness of Jonson 's tragedy. " Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero. For infinitely various arc the incidents in one man's life which cannot be reduced to unity ; and so, too, there are many... | |
 | Louise E. Matthaei - 1918 - 244 pages
...tragic unless the poet makes them so ; they are 1 Op. fit. 9" Vorlesung. 1 Poetics, ch. 8, " Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero ; there are many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one action," etc., to the end of the... | |
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Unity of plot does not, as some persons think, consist in the unity of the hero. For infinitely various are the incidents in one man's life which cannot be reduced to unity; and so, too, there are many actions of one man out of which we cannot make one... 
