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In Poetics, Aristotle attempts an analysis of poetry, mainly tragedy and epic poetry.
It is nothing short of surprising what this work is, whatever I expected to find, it is not what I ended up finding.
Poetics is surprisingly simple, considering its age and the complexity of the subject matter. I think my understanding of the nature of tragedy and epic poems has been increased greatly through this reading. However, I still did not get the whole experience of this book, there is much more to it than a casual read can infer, it requires a reread on my part.
Nothing much to add, if you are interested in an old version of literary criticism on poetry, and maybe narratives in general, that is not hard to interpret and is quite rich, read this.
Here are some quotes I liked:
It is nothing short of surprising what this work is, whatever I expected to find, it is not what I ended up finding.
Poetics is surprisingly simple, considering its age and the complexity of the subject matter. I think my understanding of the nature of tragedy and epic poems has been increased greatly through this reading. However, I still did not get the whole experience of this book, there is much more to it than a casual read can infer, it requires a reread on my part.
Nothing much to add, if you are interested in an old version of literary criticism on poetry, and maybe narratives in general, that is not hard to interpret and is quite rich, read this.
Here are some quotes I liked:
“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”
“With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”
“For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.”