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Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: With a Critical Text and a Translation of the Poetics

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Samuel Henry Butcher

Macmillan, 1895 - 384 pages

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This doctrine of aesthetic semblance has important consequences	1

TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF THE Poetics	3

The pleasure of the hearer or spectator Bears as the end of Art 192	45

Reply to the objection	99

ARISTOTLES THEORY OF POETRY AND THE FINE ARTS	107

CHAPTER II	115

Imitative or Fine Art in its highest manifestation namely Poetry	140

the probabilities	155

Idealisation of Time and Place	270

The higher law of Unity of Action often subordinated to the	278

blameless goodness	291

meaning of ȧµapría	300

CHAPTER IX	310

This doctrine has been frequently disputed	318

The artistic principle of the drama discovered by the Greeks	329

CHAPTER X	341

Poetry excludes the rule of Chance	169

CHAPTER IV	185

CHAPTER V	200

Senses in which the modern drama lays increased stress on	217

CHAPTER VI	223

CHAPTER VII	253

Aristotle selects Comedy as an example of the universalising faculty	349

The line however that severs these two kinds of Poetry is less	357

Poetic Universality as shown in the delineation of female character	370

The contrast between Plato and Aristotle 1 as to the value	379

beginning middle and end	382

Poetry and Philosophy in relation to the universal	384

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Title	Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: With a Critical Text and a Translation of the Poetics
Author	Samuel Henry Butcher
Edition	3
Publisher	Macmillan, 1895
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	20 Dec 2007
Length	384 pages

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