00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-1685594773862097747 Buklod 20231213050643.0 g||| | || || ta 171109s1951 nyu rb |||1 u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00025281018 DLC BAG rda eng PN 1040 A7 B7 1951 Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry) 1850-1910 author. Aristotle's theory of poetry and fine art with a critical text and translation of the Poetics S.H. Butcher ; with a prefatory essay, Aristotelian literary criticism by John Gassner. Fourth edition. New York Dover Publications, Inc. ©1951. lxxvi, 421 pages 21 cm First American edition. Includes bibliographical references (pages lxxiii-lxxvi) and indexes. Poetics, English and Greek / Aristotle. This book contains the celebrated Butcher translation of Aristotle's Poetics, faced, page by page, with the complete Greek text (as reconstructed by Mr. Butcher from Greek, Latin and Arabic manuscripts). The editor's 300-page exposition and interpretation follows. In his classic commentary, Butcher discusses with insight, sympathy and great learning Aristotle's ideas and their importance in the history of thought and literature. His scholarly remarks cover art and nature, imitation as an aesthetic term, poetic truth, pleasure as the end of fine art, art and morality, the function of tragedy, the dramatic unities, the ideal tragic hero, plot and character, comedy, and poetic universality. A new 35-page introductory essay, Aristotelian literary criticism, by John Gassner, discusses the validity of Aristotle's ideas today and their application to contemporary literature.--From publisher description. Aristotle. Art. Aesthetics. Aristotle. Poetics. Gassner, John 1903-1967. Aristotelian literary criticism. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PN 1040 A7 B7 1951 Book