avgastright's profile picture

avgastright 's review for:

Poetics by Aristotle
2.0

“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”

Two takeaways:
—this is one of the foundational texts of all western literary analysis. I can EASILY name examples of how most to all stories interact with Aristotle’s interpretation of what quality literature is. 
—this mf really hated women