The Poetics of Aristotle: Its Meaning and Influence, Volumen6Marshall Jones Company, 1923 - 157 páginas |
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... plots and grotesque diction of the earlier type gave way to a greater action and more elevated style , while the trochaic metre , suited to dancing , yielded to an iambic measure , suited - in Greek as in English - to the rhythm of ...
... plots and grotesque diction of the earlier type gave way to a greater action and more elevated style , while the trochaic metre , suited to dancing , yielded to an iambic measure , suited - in Greek as in English - to the rhythm of ...
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... plots was accredited to Epicharmus and Phormis , and hence origi- nated , not at Athens , but in Sicily . He notes , as very important , that , of Athenian poets , Crates first discarded personal abuse as a means to laughter , and ...
... plots was accredited to Epicharmus and Phormis , and hence origi- nated , not at Athens , but in Sicily . He notes , as very important , that , of Athenian poets , Crates first discarded personal abuse as a means to laughter , and ...
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... plot , ( 2 ) some sort of moral bent in the agents , ( 3 ) a display of their way of arguing and inferring , and ( 4 ) the use of diction as the ' medium . ' But two constituents of tragedy are absent from an epic poem ; these are ( 5 ) ...
... plot , ( 2 ) some sort of moral bent in the agents , ( 3 ) a display of their way of arguing and inferring , and ( 4 ) the use of diction as the ' medium . ' But two constituents of tragedy are absent from an epic poem ; these are ( 5 ) ...
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... plot or fable of the tragedy . The plot is that synthesis of incidents which gives form or being to the play as a whole . In every tragedy there are these six elements , and there can be no others . Upon these the poet bestows his art ...
... plot or fable of the tragedy . The plot is that synthesis of incidents which gives form or being to the play as a whole . In every tragedy there are these six elements , and there can be no others . Upon these the poet bestows his art ...
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... plot is the most important of the six elements . He does not call it more important than the agents , for he does not regard the agents as a single element ; he divides human nature , in life and in dramatic art , into will and ...
... plot is the most important of the six elements . He does not call it more important than the agents , for he does not regard the agents as a single element ; he divides human nature , in life and in dramatic art , into will and ...
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Página 135 - ... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a christian, might do for mine...
Página 135 - ... that sublime art, which, in Aristotle's Poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Página 137 - This is mentioned to vindicate tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day with other common interludes...
Página 143 - Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative...
Página 92 - Trage'die is to seyn a certeyn storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of hym that stood in greet prosperitee, And is y-fallen out of heigh degree Into myserie, and endeth wrecchedly...
Página 136 - Tragedy, as it was antiently compos'd, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Página 67 - Come now, therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say some evil beast hath devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Página 136 - Nor is nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion ; for so in physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.
Página 138 - The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is according to ancient rule, and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours.
Página 135 - Job a brief model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art, and use judgment, is no transgression, but an enriching of art...