The Poetics
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781419178023
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Literary Criticism; Ancient and Classical; Drama; Poetry
First sentence: Our subject being Poetry, I propose to speak not only of the art in general but also of its species and their respective capacities; of the structure of plot required for a good poem; of the number and nature of the constituent parts of a poem; and likewise of any other matters in the same line of inquiry.