num_pages: 261
description: Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both the Tractatus Coislinianus, which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle’s dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.
language: English
title: Poetics
titlecomplete: Poetics
characters: Aristotle (philosopher)
genres: Literature, Classics, Ancient, Theory, Philosophy, Poetry, Writing, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 24460
places: Ancient Greece
publisher: Hackett Publ. Co Inc