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" In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double thread of plot and also an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators, for... "
Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: With a Critical Text and a ... - Page 45
by Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 384 pages
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Life in Poetry: Law in Taste: Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford ...

William John Courthope - 1901 - 474 pages
...The drama is superior to the epic because it affords the most vivid combination of pleasures : " " The poet is guided in what he writes by the wishes of his audience ; the pleasure, however, hence derived " (that is, from the happy endings of tragedies) " is not the true tragic pleasure."...
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The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle - 1907 - 148 pages
...though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators ; for the poet is guided in what he writes...
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The Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking, Volume 2

1916 - 464 pages
...virtuous and the punishment of the bad, and he adds that such an ending is "accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided...what he writes by the wishes of his audience." The novelist can end his story logically in accordance with human justice or human injustice. He can paint...
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Poet Lore, Volume 30

1919 - 694 pages
...most dramatic'] in effect. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. ... It has a double thread of plot, and also an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in what he writes...
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The Poetical Works of Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Volume 1

William Alexander Earl of Stirling - 1921 - 924 pages
...as conforming to the kind of tragedy Aristotle placed in the second rank, although " some place [it] first. Like the Odyssey it has a double thread of...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators ; for the poet is guided in what he writes...
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Greek Literature in Translation

George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - 1924 - 672 pages
...yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in what he writes...
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Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: With a Critical Text and ...

Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 pages
...though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the moet tragic of the poets. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy...Odyssey, it has a double thread of plot, and also an oppoeite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness...
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The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture

Hanna Scolnicov, Peter Holland - 1989 - 246 pages
...have described, or better than worse, (p. 47: 2. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double...also an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the had. It is aecounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in...
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The Questions of Tragedy

Arthur B. Coffin - 1991 - 354 pages
...yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets. 7. In the second rank comes the kind of tragedy which some place first. Like the Odyssey, it has a double...opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. It is accounted the best because of the weakness of the spectators; for the poet is guided in what he writes...
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El triángulo sentimental en el drama del Dieciocho: (Inglaterra, Francia ...

Yvonne Fuentes - 1999 - 364 pages
...vice? And what, we ask, could be less Aristotelian? Aristotle carefully condemns the tragedy that has "an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad". It is proper rather to comedy. The neo-classicist, though he may have thought that he has the support of...
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