Aristotle on the Art of Poetry
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Bywater's English version of the Poetics gives Aristotle's short treatise on how poetry works, with a preface by Gilbert Murray. The Poetics deals mainly with tragedy and epic. It was written as two books, and only the first survives; the second, on comedy and other subjects, is lost. Murray reads the work as an answer to the challenge Plato sets out near the end of the Republic and cautions modern readers about the distance between ancient Greece and today. The text runs to 26 short chapters. Oxford's Clarendon Press issued this edition in 1920.
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