Poetics
Aristotle’s “Poetics” is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In this seminal text, Aristotle discusses the art of poetry at length, considering not just the form and structure of poetry but also its effect on the audience.
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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings on ethics, politics, logic, and poetics · including the Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics · shaped Western thought for centuries.
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Listen to Poetics by Aristotle free online. The full audiobook (2 hr 24 min, 11 chapters, read by Robert Foster) streams free on this page.
Poetics (1909) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preface | 25:21 | |
| 2 | Chapters 1-3 | 9:07 | |
| 3 | Chapters 4-5 | 9:45 | |
| 4 | Chapters 6-8 | 13:20 | |
| 5 | Chapters 9-13 | 15:20 | |
| 6 | Chapter 14 | 5:28 | |
| 7 | Chapters 15-16 | 10:52 | |
| 8 | Chapters 17-19 | 8:35 | |
| 9 | Chapters 20-21 | 13:21 | |
| 10 | Chapters 22-24 | 16:41 | |
| 11 | Chapters 25-26 | 15:59 |
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