![]() ![]() The Poetics has informed thinking about drama ever since. ![]() ![]() Anyone who studies literature will find tons of huge and unwieldy sounding Greek words that might be confusing, but in Poetics much of them are well-defined. To Aristotle, poetry doesn’t just mean verse but theater the works. Poetics sets out to analyze the nature and uses of poetry. This guide refers to the 2013 Oxford World’s Classics edition, translated and edited by Anthony Kenny. ![]() Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals. His Poetics (335 BCE) is a philosophical text on aesthetics, dramatic theory and the laws of literature, and at 2400 years old is the first of its kind. Poetics, written around 335 BCE, is one of the most important works of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the Poetics introduced into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis ('imitation'), hamartia ('error') and katharsis ('purification'). In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history ![]()
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